Alert archive / Minnesota / 2017
Weather alerts in Minnesota, February 2017
48 weather alerts in February 2017, 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 February 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 48
- Warnings
- 15
- Watches
- 8
- Advisories
- 19
- Busiest day
- February 22, 201710 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 3:35 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DLH | Cook, Lake, Saint Louis | 13 hr |
| Feb 6, 3:07 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DLH | Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis | 36 hr |
| Feb 6, 2:27 PM CST | Freezing Rain Advisory | ARX | Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 28 hr |
| Feb 6, 2:30 PM CST | Freezing Rain Advisory | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin and 6 more | 25 hr |
| Feb 6, 3:11 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more | 22 hr |
| Feb 7, 2:22 PM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson and 9 more | 43 hr |
| Feb 7, 3:17 PM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca, Koochiching and 2 more | 19 hr |
| Feb 8, 3:20 PM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson and 11 more | 18 hr |
| Feb 8, 7:55 PM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | DLH | Cass, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis | 13 hr |
| Feb 10, 7:15 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DLH | Cook, Lake, Saint Louis | 3 hr |
| Feb 19, 1:56 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | ARX | Mower | 5 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:27 AM CST | River Flood Warning | FGF | Clay | 8 days |
| Feb 20, 11:27 AM CST | River Flood Warning | FGF | Polk | 11 days |
| Feb 20, 11:27 AM CST | River Flood Warning | FGF | Marshall, Polk | 13 days |
| Feb 20, 11:27 AM CST | River Flood Warning | FGF | Clay | 5 days |
| Feb 20, 11:27 AM CST | River Flood Warning | FGF | Clay | 10 days |
| Feb 20, 11:30 AM CST | River Flood Warning | FGF | Kittson | 24 hr |
| Feb 21, 7:07 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 9:40 AM CST | River Flood Warning | DLH | Crow Wing, Morrison | 4 days |
| Feb 21, 10:04 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | ARX | Fillmore, Wabasha | 56 min |
| Feb 21, 11:00 AM CST | River Flood Warning | FGF | Clay | 67 hr |
| Feb 21, 11:00 AM CST | River Flood Warning | FGF | Norman | 7 days |
| Feb 21, 3:30 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 31 more | 45 hr |
| Feb 21, 3:59 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 36 hr |
| Feb 21, 6:43 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | FGF | Kittson, Marshall, Polk | 8 hr |
| Feb 22, 2:58 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ABR | Big Stone | 24 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:41 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | DLH | Pine | 35 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:49 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ARX | Dodge, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 24 hr |
| Feb 22, 1:59 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Crow Wing | 31 min |
| Feb 22, 2:33 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Crow Wing | 27 min |
| Feb 22, 3:09 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Aitkin | 21 min |
| Feb 22, 3:22 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 20 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:26 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Le Sueur, McLeod, Martin and 6 more | 21 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:31 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | DLH | Carlton | 14 min |
| Feb 23, 3:31 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ARX | Fillmore, Houston | 12 hr |
| Feb 23, 3:31 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | ARX | Dodge, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 35 hr |
| Feb 23, 4:14 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 37 hr |
| Feb 23, 4:14 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FSD | Lyon | 24 hr |
| Feb 23, 4:27 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Le Sueur and 6 more | 34 hr |
| Feb 23, 4:27 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue, Rice, Scott, Washington | 34 hr |
| Feb 23, 11:59 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 26 hr |
| Feb 23, 12:31 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | MPX | Carver, Dakota, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Hennepin and 10 more | 35 hr |
| Feb 23, 3:03 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 39 hr |
| Feb 23, 6:05 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson, Martin | 6 hr |
| Feb 23, 11:54 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 24, 10:45 AM CST | River Flood Warning | FGF | Clay | 39 hr |
| Feb 25, 7:11 AM CST | Wind Advisory | DLH | Cook | 5 hr |
| Feb 26, 12:06 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | FGF | Otter Tail, Wilkin | 5 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 2 |
| Special Weather Statement | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| River Flood Warning | 10 |
| Winter | |
| Blizzard Warning | 3 |
| Winter Storm Warning | 2 |
| Blizzard Watch | 2 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 6 |
| Freezing Rain Advisory | 2 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 7 |
| Cold | |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 4 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 1 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 5 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wabasha County8
- Olmsted County7
- Winona County7
- Clay County7
- Mower County7
- Cook County6
- Goodhue County6
- Polk County6
- Dodge County6
- Fillmore County6
- Faribault County6
- Lake County5
- Saint Louis County5
- Dakota County5
- Kittson County5
- Marshall County5
- Houston County5
- Freeborn County5
- Martin County5
- Rice County5
- Waseca County5
- Jackson County5
- Scott County4
- Washington County4
- Crow Wing County4
- Blue Earth County4
- Brown County4
- Le Sueur County4
- Nicollet County4
- Steele County4
- Watonwan County4
- Cottonwood County4
- Nobles County4
- Rock County4
- Itasca County3
- Koochiching County3
- Carver County3
- Hennepin County3
- Ramsey County3
- Beltrami County3
41 more counties
- Clearwater County3
- Lake of the Woods County3
- Pennington County3
- Red Lake County3
- Roseau County3
- Norman County3
- McLeod County3
- Redwood County3
- Renville County3
- Sibley County3
- Lyon County3
- Murray County3
- Pipestone County3
- Carlton County2
- Anoka County2
- Chisago County2
- Isanti County2
- Sherburne County2
- Wright County2
- Becker County2
- Hubbard County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Wadena County2
- Aitkin County2
- Cass County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Wilkin County2
- Lincoln County2
- Morrison County1
- Benton County1
- Chippewa County1
- Kanabec County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Meeker County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Stearns County1
- Swift County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Big Stone County1
- Pine County1
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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. Rebuilt daily.