Alert archive / Minnesota / Blizzard Watches / 2016
Blizzard Watches in Minnesota, February 2016
5 blizzard watches in February 2016. 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 February 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- February 5, 20164 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 3:05 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Faribault, Freeborn and 17 more | 30 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:07 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 24 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:13 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | FGF | Becker, Clay, Grant, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall and 7 more | 23 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:21 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 1 more | 37 hr |
| Feb 6, 3:18 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | ARX | Dodge, Mower | 13 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Chippewa County1
- Douglas County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Le Sueur County1
- McLeod County1
- Martin County1
- Meeker County1
- Nicollet County1
- Pope County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Sibley County1
- Steele County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Waseca County1
- Watonwan County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Big Stone County1
- Traverse County1
- 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
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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.