Extreme Cold Watches in Minnesota
17 extreme cold watches 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 watches reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Watches
- 17
- Busiest year
- 202510 extreme cold watches
- Average year
- 6over 3 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.
- Chippewa County4
- Douglas County4
- Kandiyohi County4
- Lac qui Parle County4
- Pope County4
- Stearns County4
- Stevens County4
- Swift County4
- Todd County4
- Yellow Medicine County4
- Becker County3
- Beltrami County3
- Clay County3
- Clearwater County3
- Grant County3
- Hubbard County3
- Kittson County3
- Lake of the Woods County3
- Mahnomen County3
- Marshall County3
- Norman County3
- Otter Tail County3
- Pennington County3
- Polk County3
- Red Lake County3
- Roseau County3
- Wadena County3
- Wilkin County3
- Aitkin County3
- Benton County3
- Blue Earth County3
- Brown County3
- Cass County3
- Cottonwood County3
- Crow Wing County3
- Faribault County3
- Itasca County3
- Jackson County3
- Koochiching County3
- Lincoln County3
47 more counties
- Lyon County3
- McLeod County3
- Martin County3
- Meeker County3
- Mille Lacs County3
- Morrison County3
- Murray County3
- Nicollet County3
- Nobles County3
- Pipestone County3
- Redwood County3
- Renville County3
- Sibley County3
- Watonwan County3
- Anoka County2
- Big Stone County2
- Carlton County2
- Carver County2
- Chisago County2
- Cook County2
- Dakota County2
- Dodge County2
- Fillmore County2
- Freeborn County2
- Goodhue County2
- Hennepin County2
- Houston County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- Lake County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Mower County2
- Olmsted County2
- Pine County2
- Ramsey County2
- Rice County2
- Rock County2
- Saint Louis County2
- Scott County2
- Sherburne County2
- Steele County2
- Traverse County2
- Wabasha County2
- Waseca County2
- Washington County2
- Winona County2
- Wright County2
The latest extreme cold watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20, 1:23 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 37 hr |
| Jan 20, 1:07 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 48 hr |
| Jan 20, 12:57 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 45 hr |
| Jan 20, 12:47 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 46 hr |
| Jan 20, 12:43 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more | 49 hr |
| Jan 20, 12:30 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 38 hr |
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.