Alert archive / Minnesota / Blizzard Warnings
Blizzard Warnings in Minnesota, 2025
21 blizzard warnings in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Warnings
- 21
- Busiest month
- March10 blizzard warnings
- Busiest day
- March 14, 20254 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 9:56 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | FGF | Kittson | 8 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:18 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Le Sueur and 6 more | 32 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:20 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 33 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:49 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles | 31 hr |
| Mar 14, 1:08 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 18 hr |
| Mar 14, 1:55 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone | 23 hr |
| Mar 14, 2:07 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | FGF | Becker, Grant, Hubbard, Otter Tail, Wadena, Wilkin | 23 hr |
| Mar 14, 2:11 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Redwood and 4 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:21 AM CDT | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Nobles | 40 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:08 AM CDT | Blizzard Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Le Sueur and 6 more | 38 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:16 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha | 32 hr |
| Apr 2, 1:53 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | DLH | Cook, Lake, Saint Louis | 7 hr |
| Nov 25, 12:14 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 9 hr |
| Dec 17, 12:56 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | FGF | Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Otter Tail, Pennington and 4 more | 29 hr |
| Dec 18, 3:59 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted | 5 hr |
| Dec 18, 4:40 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Le Sueur, Martin and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 27, 1:51 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Douglas, Faribault and 23 more | 40 hr |
| Dec 27, 9:48 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted | 33 hr |
| Dec 27, 11:20 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Grant, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall and 8 more | 28 hr |
| Dec 28, 2:37 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 24 hr |
| Dec 28, 10:56 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 1 more | 19 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blue Earth County4
- Brown County4
- Faribault County4
- Freeborn County4
- Le Sueur County4
- Martin County4
- Nicollet County4
- Rice County4
- Steele County4
- Waseca County4
- Watonwan County4
- Dodge County4
- Fillmore County4
- Mower County4
- Olmsted County4
- Cottonwood County4
- Kittson County3
- Jackson County3
- Lincoln County3
- Lyon County3
- Murray County3
- Nobles County3
- Big Stone County3
- Traverse County3
- Otter Tail County3
- Wilkin County3
- Goodhue County2
- Wabasha County2
- Pipestone County2
- Becker County2
- Grant County2
- Wadena County2
- Chippewa County2
- Douglas County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Pope County2
- Redwood County2
- Renville County2
- Stevens County2
23 more counties
- Swift County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Clay County2
- Marshall County2
- Norman County2
- Pennington County2
- Polk County2
- Red Lake County2
- Roseau County2
- Sibley County2
- Winona County1
- Hubbard County1
- Cook County1
- Lake County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Carver County1
- McLeod County1
- Meeker County1
- Scott County1
- Stearns County1
- Todd County1
- Wright County1
- Mahnomen County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.