Alert archive / Minnesota / Blizzard Watches / 2008
Blizzard Watches in Minnesota, December 2008
7 blizzard watches 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 watches reaches back to 2005.
Blizzard Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in December 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- December 12, 20084 blizzard watches
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 12, 3:25 AM CST | Blizzard Watch | FSD | Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone | 37 hr |
| Dec 12, 3:39 AM CST | Blizzard Watch | FGF | Becker, Clay, Grant, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall and 7 more | 25 hr |
| Dec 12, 3:49 AM CST | Blizzard Watch | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 24 hr |
| Dec 12, 4:09 AM CST | Blizzard Watch | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Stevens, Swift, Yellow Medicine | 36 hr |
| Dec 18, 2:22 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 14 hr |
| Dec 18, 3:39 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Dec 18, 3:43 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Faribault, Lac qui Parle, Martin and 7 more | 36 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- Murray County2
- Pipestone County2
- Big Stone County2
- Traverse 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
- Cottonwood County1
- Jackson County1
- Nobles 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.