Weather alerts in Minnesota, January 2012

49 weather alerts in January 2012, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.

Weather alerts by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in January 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 49
Warnings: 8
Watches: 2
Advisories: 39
Busiest day: January 18, 20129 alerts

Over time

By day

Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 31, 8:26 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Cottonwood, Jackson	4 hr
Dec 31, 8:54 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	MPX	Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 14 more	7 hr
Jan 1, 4:08 AM CST	Wind Advisory	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Pine, Saint Louis	20 hr
Jan 1, 12:11 PM CST	Wind Advisory	FGF	Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Polk and 2 more	255 days
Jan 1, 3:02 PM CST	Wind Advisory	ARX	Dodge, Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted	143 days
Jan 1, 5:49 PM CST	Wind Advisory	FSD	Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 1 more	2 hr
Jan 2, 3:58 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		11 hr
Jan 3, 3:38 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		12 hr
Jan 4, 3:39 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		66 hr
Jan 8, 3:00 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		25 hr
Jan 9, 3:39 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		6 hr
Jan 10, 2:20 PM CST	Wind Advisory	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	28 hr
Jan 10, 2:32 PM CST	Wind Advisory	MPX	Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Martin and 7 more	27 hr
Jan 10, 2:38 PM CST	Wind Advisory	FSD	Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more	27 hr
Jan 10, 3:13 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FGF	Clay, Grant, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Otter Tail and 2 more	14 hr
Jan 11, 3:29 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		60 hr
Jan 11, 3:39 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ARX	Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more	41 hr
Jan 11, 4:12 AM CST	Wind Advisory	FGF	Clay, Grant, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Otter Tail and 2 more	11 hr
Jan 12, 3:49 AM CST	Heavy Freezing Spray Warning	DLH		30 hr
Jan 15, 3:43 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		60 hr
Jan 17, 4:12 AM CST	Extreme Cold Watch	FGF	Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more	24 hr
Jan 18, 3:05 AM CST	Extreme Cold Warning	FSD	Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 1 more	32 hr
Jan 18, 3:18 AM CST	Extreme Cold Warning	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	33 hr
Jan 18, 3:32 AM CST	Extreme Cold Warning	MPX	Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Faribault and 22 more	32 hr
Jan 18, 3:41 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	ARX	Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more	32 hr
Jan 18, 3:52 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	DLH		24 hr
Jan 18, 3:52 AM CST	Heavy Freezing Spray Warning	DLH		24 hr
Jan 18, 4:05 AM CST	Extreme Cold Warning	FGF	Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more	32 hr
Jan 18, 3:15 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more	47 hr
Jan 18, 3:38 PM CST	Extreme Cold Warning	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 3 more	20 hr
Jan 19, 3:53 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	MPX	Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Nicollet and 4 more	34 hr
Jan 19, 2:56 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ARX	Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Winona	27 hr
Jan 19, 3:21 PM CST	Extreme Cold Warning	FGF	Kittson	13 hr
Jan 20, 3:24 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	12 hr
Jan 21, 3:21 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ABR	Big Stone, Traverse	45 hr
Jan 21, 3:18 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FGF	Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Kittson and 10 more	33 hr
Jan 21, 3:25 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DLH	Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis	21 hr
Jan 22, 3:18 AM CST	Freezing Rain Advisory	ARX	Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more	12 hr
Jan 22, 3:30 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more	27 hr
Jan 22, 4:48 AM CST	Freezing Rain Advisory	MPX	Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 21 more	11 hr
Jan 22, 3:13 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more	33 hr
Jan 22, 3:17 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ARX	Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more	24 hr
Jan 22, 3:41 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	MPX	Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more	24 hr
Jan 24, 2:47 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Jackson, Nobles, Rock	11 hr
Jan 25, 4:16 AM CST	Wind Advisory	FGF	Kittson	14 hr
Jan 25, 8:27 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Lincoln, Pipestone, Rock	4 hr
Jan 27, 3:19 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FGF	Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman and 3 more	8 hr
Jan 30, 3:42 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DLH	Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching and 2 more	18 hr
Jan 30, 3:51 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FGF	Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Marshall and 4 more	17 hr

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Winter
Winter Storm Watch	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	2
Winter Weather Advisory	18
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	6
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Wind Chill Advisory	1
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	9
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	1
Marine
Heavy Freezing Spray Warning	2
Small Craft Advisory	8

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.