Extreme Cold Warnings in Minnesota
42 extreme cold warnings 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 extreme cold warnings reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Warnings
- 42
- Busiest year
- 202523 extreme cold warnings
- Average year
- 11over 4 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.
- Clearwater County9
- Mahnomen County9
- Marshall County9
- Roseau County9
- Kittson County9
- Beltrami County8
- Hubbard County8
- Pennington County8
- Polk County8
- Red Lake County8
- Becker County7
- Itasca County7
- Koochiching County7
- Lake of the Woods County7
- Saint Louis County7
- Wadena County7
- Benton County7
- Douglas County7
- Lincoln County7
- Lyon County7
- Mille Lacs County7
- Morrison County7
- Murray County7
- Norman County7
- Pipestone County7
- Pope County7
- Stearns County7
- Stevens County7
- Swift County7
- Todd County7
- Wilkin County7
- Aitkin County6
- Blue Earth County6
- Brown County6
- Cass County6
- Chippewa County6
- Clay County6
- Cottonwood County6
- Crow Wing County6
- Grant County6
47 more counties
- Isanti County6
- Kanabec County6
- Kandiyohi County6
- Lac qui Parle County6
- McLeod County6
- Meeker County6
- Nicollet County6
- Otter Tail County6
- Redwood County6
- Renville County6
- Sherburne County6
- Sibley County6
- Watonwan County6
- Wright County6
- Yellow Medicine County6
- Big Stone County5
- Carlton County5
- Cook County5
- Jackson County5
- Lake County5
- Nobles County5
- Traverse County5
- Pine County5
- Faribault County4
- Martin County4
- Carver County4
- Chisago County4
- Le Sueur County4
- Waseca County4
- Anoka County3
- Dakota County3
- Dodge County3
- Fillmore County3
- Freeborn County3
- Goodhue County3
- Hennepin County3
- Houston County3
- Mower County3
- Olmsted County3
- Ramsey County3
- Rice County3
- Rock County3
- Scott County3
- Steele County3
- Wabasha County3
- Washington County3
- Winona County3
The latest extreme cold warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 1:23 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | DLH | Itasca, Koochiching, Saint Louis | 23 hr |
| Jan 22, 2:35 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 36 hr |
| Jan 22, 2:28 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 33 hr |
| Jan 21, 12:02 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 48 hr |
| Jan 21, 11:56 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 48 hr |
| Jan 20, 1:07 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 6 days |
| Jan 20, 12:43 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more | 4 days |
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.