Alert archive / Minnesota / Extreme Cold Watches
Extreme Cold Watches in Minnesota, 2025
10 extreme cold watches 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 watches reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Watches
- 10
- Busiest month
- February10 extreme cold watches
- Busiest day
- February 15, 20254 extreme cold 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 15, 2:03 AM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 23 hr |
| Feb 15, 2:26 AM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | MPX | Benton, Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Mille Lacs and 7 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 15, 2:29 AM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Koochiching | 24 hr |
| Feb 15, 2:45 AM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 23 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:22 AM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:35 AM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:02 AM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:11 AM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:57 AM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 1 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 17, 1:31 PM CST | Extreme Cold Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Faribault, Kandiyohi and 15 more | 13 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chippewa County3
- Douglas County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- Lac qui Parle County3
- Pope County3
- Stearns County3
- Stevens County3
- Swift County3
- Todd County3
- Yellow Medicine County3
- Benton County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Morrison County2
- Aitkin County2
- Cass County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Itasca County2
- Koochiching County2
- Blue Earth County2
- Brown County2
- Faribault County2
- McLeod County2
- Martin County2
- Meeker County2
- Nicollet County2
- Redwood County2
- Renville County2
- Sibley County2
- Watonwan County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Jackson County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- Murray County2
- Nobles County2
- Pipestone County2
- Big Stone County1
- Traverse County1
- Becker County1
- Beltrami County1
47 more counties
- Clay County1
- Clearwater County1
- Grant County1
- Hubbard County1
- Kittson County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Marshall County1
- Norman County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Wadena County1
- Wilkin County1
- Carlton County1
- Cook County1
- Lake County1
- Pine County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Anoka County1
- Carver County1
- Chisago County1
- Dakota County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- Kanabec County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Ramsey County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca County1
- Washington County1
- Wright County1
- Rock County1
- Dodge County1
- Fillmore County1
- Houston County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted County1
- Wabasha County1
- Winona County1
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.