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Extreme Cold Warnings in Minnesota, 2025
23 extreme cold warnings in 2025. 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 in 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Warnings
- 23
- Busiest month
- February15 extreme cold warnings
- Busiest day
- February 16, 20255 extreme cold warnings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 1:06 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more | 4 days |
| Jan 17, 2:00 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 4 days |
| Jan 17, 2:13 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 4 days |
| Jan 18, 1:36 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 70 hr |
| Jan 19, 1:34 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone | 10 hr |
| Jan 19, 1:55 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 46 hr |
| Jan 20, 2:45 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 33 hr |
| Feb 10, 3:00 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FGF | Kittson, Marshall, Roseau | 33 hr |
| Feb 11, 11:22 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 10 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:23 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 3 days |
| Feb 16, 1:53 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 58 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:22 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more | 34 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:35 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | MPX | Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Douglas and 23 more | 31 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:02 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone | 33 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:12 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more | 32 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:57 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 33 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:59 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 31 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:25 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 31 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:10 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Pine | 31 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:27 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | MPX | Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Chisago, Douglas and 21 more | 31 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:44 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard, Mahnomen and 4 more | 31 hr |
| Feb 18, 3:09 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 1 more | 31 hr |
| Dec 12, 2:33 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall and 4 more | 21 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lincoln County5
- Lyon County5
- Murray County5
- Pipestone County5
- Aitkin County4
- Cass County4
- Crow Wing County4
- Pine County4
- Clearwater County4
- Hubbard County4
- Kittson County4
- Mahnomen County4
- Marshall County4
- Roseau County4
- Wilkin County4
- Benton County4
- Blue Earth County4
- Brown County4
- Chippewa County4
- Douglas County4
- Isanti County4
- Kanabec County4
- Kandiyohi County4
- Lac qui Parle County4
- McLeod County4
- Meeker County4
- Mille Lacs County4
- Morrison County4
- Nicollet County4
- Pope County4
- Redwood County4
- Renville County4
- Sherburne County4
- Sibley County4
- Stearns County4
- Stevens County4
- Swift County4
- Todd County4
- Watonwan County4
- Wright County4
47 more counties
- Yellow Medicine County4
- Cottonwood County4
- Carlton County3
- Cook County3
- Itasca County3
- Koochiching County3
- Lake County3
- Saint Louis County3
- Becker County3
- Beltrami County3
- Clay County3
- Grant County3
- Norman County3
- Otter Tail County3
- Pennington County3
- Polk County3
- Red Lake County3
- Wadena County3
- Carver County3
- Chisago County3
- Le Sueur County3
- Waseca County3
- Jackson County3
- Nobles County3
- Lake of the Woods County2
- Anoka County2
- Dakota County2
- Faribault County2
- Freeborn County2
- Goodhue County2
- Hennepin County2
- Martin County2
- Ramsey County2
- Rice County2
- Scott County2
- Steele County2
- Washington County2
- Big Stone County2
- Traverse County2
- Dodge County2
- Fillmore County2
- Houston County2
- Mower County2
- Olmsted County2
- Wabasha County2
- Winona County2
- Rock County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.