Blizzard Watches in Minnesota
80 blizzard watches since 1986. 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 watches reaches back to 2005.
Blizzard Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Watches
- 80
- Busiest year
- 201416 blizzard watches
- Average year
- 7over 11 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lincoln County17
- Lyon County17
- Polk County17
- Wilkin County17
- Big Stone County15
- Clay County15
- Kittson County15
- Marshall County15
- Norman County15
- Murray County14
- Pipestone County14
- Traverse County14
- Grant County14
- Otter Tail County14
- Yellow Medicine County14
- Cottonwood County13
- Chippewa County13
- Lac qui Parle County13
- Stevens County13
- Swift County13
- Jackson County12
- Nobles County12
- Blue Earth County12
- Faribault County12
- Martin County12
- Pennington County11
- Red Lake County11
- Watonwan County11
- Pope County11
- Rock County10
- Becker County10
- Brown County10
- Mahnomen County10
- Nicollet County10
- Redwood County10
- Renville County10
- Roseau County10
- Douglas County10
- Waseca County10
- Freeborn County9
20 more counties
Nearby
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.