Alert archive / Minnesota / Blizzard Warnings / 2008
Blizzard Warnings in Minnesota, December 2008
8 blizzard warnings in December 2008. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of blizzard warnings reaches back to 2005.
Blizzard Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in December 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Warnings
- 8
- Busiest day
- December 13, 20084 blizzard warnings
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 13, 3:36 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 47 hr |
| Dec 13, 4:03 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Grant, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall and 7 more | 48 hr |
| Dec 13, 12:15 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | DLH | Carlton, Saint Louis | 33 hr |
| Dec 13, 4:01 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Lyon | 32 hr |
| Dec 14, 5:44 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Douglas, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift and 1 more | 18 hr |
| Dec 19, 4:49 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 34 hr |
| Dec 19, 4:08 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 47 hr |
| Dec 20, 3:55 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Faribault, Lac qui Parle, Martin and 7 more | 17 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Big Stone County2
- Traverse County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- Chippewa County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Stevens County2
- Swift County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Becker County1
- Clay County1
- Grant County1
- Kittson County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Marshall County1
- Norman County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Wilkin County1
- Carlton County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Douglas County1
- Pope County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Jackson County1
- Murray County1
- Nobles County1
- Pipestone County1
- Rock County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Faribault County1
- Martin County1
- Nicollet County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Watonwan 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.