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Blizzard Warnings in Minnesota, 2019

24 blizzard warnings in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.

Blizzard Warnings
24
Busiest month
February10 blizzard warnings
Busiest day
January 23, 20194 blizzard warnings

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 23, 2:42 AM CSTBlizzard WarningABRBig Stone, Traverse27 hr
Jan 23, 2:51 AM CSTBlizzard WarningMPXBlue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Faribault, Freeborn and 14 more29 hr
Jan 23, 3:58 AM CSTBlizzard WarningFGFClay, Grant, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Otter Tail and 2 more26 hr
Jan 23, 2:27 PM CSTBlizzard WarningFSDCottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 1 more15 hr
Jan 27, 4:21 AM CSTBlizzard WarningFGFBecker, Clay, Grant, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall and 6 more24 hr
Feb 6, 1:01 PM CSTBlizzard WarningABRBig Stone, Traverse35 hr
Feb 6, 1:43 PM CSTBlizzard WarningFSDCottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more34 hr
Feb 6, 2:34 PM CSTBlizzard WarningMPXBlue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Faribault, Freeborn, Lac qui Parle and 10 more33 hr
Feb 6, 2:48 PM CSTBlizzard WarningFGFClay, Grant, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Otter Tail and 2 more30 hr
Feb 22, 3:26 PM CSTBlizzard WarningFSDCottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more51 hr
Feb 22, 4:01 PM CSTBlizzard WarningMPXBlue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota, Douglas and 26 more53 hr
Feb 23, 2:56 AM CSTBlizzard WarningARXDodge, Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona42 hr
Feb 23, 2:28 PM CSTBlizzard WarningABRBig Stone, Traverse28 hr
Feb 23, 2:51 PM CSTBlizzard WarningDLHCook, Lake, Saint Louis30 hr
Feb 23, 2:51 PM CSTBlizzard WarningFGFBecker, Clay, Grant, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall and 7 more25 hr
Mar 12, 3:01 PM CDTBlizzard WarningABRBig Stone, Traverse52 hr
Mar 13, 5:13 AM CDTBlizzard WarningFGFClay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 2 more38 hr
Apr 9, 3:42 AM CDTBlizzard WarningABRBig Stone, Traverse3 days
Apr 9, 3:52 AM CDTBlizzard WarningFSDCottonwood, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone3 days
Apr 9, 4:27 AM CDTBlizzard WarningMPXChippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Meeker, Pope and 6 more66 hr
Apr 10, 4:05 AM CDTBlizzard WarningFGFBecker, Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Wilkin47 hr
Oct 10, 12:46 PM CDTBlizzard WarningFGFClay, Norman, Polk48 hr
Nov 29, 3:26 AM CSTBlizzard WarningDLHCarlton, Lake, Saint Louis57 hr
Dec 29, 8:48 AM CSTBlizzard WarningFGFClay, Marshall, Norman, Polk, Wilkin21 hr

By county

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

25 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 23, 20194blizzard warnings
  2. February 6, 20194blizzard warnings
  3. February 23, 20194blizzard warnings
  4. April 9, 20193blizzard warnings
  5. February 22, 20192blizzard warnings
  6. January 27, 20191blizzard warnings
  7. March 12, 20191blizzard warnings
  8. March 13, 20191blizzard warnings
  9. April 10, 20191blizzard warnings
  10. October 10, 20191blizzard warnings
  11. November 29, 20191blizzard warnings
  12. December 29, 20191blizzard warnings

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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.