Alert archive / Minnesota / Blizzard Watches
Blizzard Watches in Minnesota, 2012
3 blizzard watches in 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 watches reaches back to 2005.
Blizzard Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Watches
- 3
- Busiest month
- February3 blizzard watches
- Busiest day
- February 26, 20123 blizzard watches
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 3:09 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | FGF | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard, Mahnomen and 7 more | 37 hr |
| Feb 26, 3:20 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 23 hr |
| Feb 26, 3:22 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | MPX | Chippewa, Douglas, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift and 2 more | 25 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Becker County1
- Clay County1
- Clearwater County1
- Grant County1
- Hubbard County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Norman County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Wadena County1
- Wilkin County1
- Big Stone County1
- Traverse County1
- Chippewa County1
- Douglas County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Pope County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Todd County1
- Yellow Medicine 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.