Alert archive / Minnesota / Blizzard Warnings / 2012
Blizzard Warnings in Minnesota, December 2012
5 blizzard warnings in December 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Warnings
- 5
- Busiest day
- December 8, 20123 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 8, 4:02 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 38 hr |
| Dec 8, 3:18 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone | 30 hr |
| Dec 8, 3:36 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | MPX | Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, McLeod and 9 more | 32 hr |
| Dec 19, 4:03 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Winona | 44 hr |
| Dec 19, 3:06 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Steele, Waseca | 27 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Big Stone County1
- Traverse County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Murray County1
- Pipestone County1
- Brown County1
- Chippewa County1
- Douglas County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- McLeod County1
- Meeker County1
- Nicollet County1
- Pope County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Sibley County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Dodge County1
- Fillmore County1
- Houston County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted County1
- Winona County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Martin County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca County1
Nearby
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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.