Freeze Watches in Minnesota
49 freeze 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 freeze watches reaches back to 2005.
Freeze Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Freeze Watches
- 49
- Busiest year
- 201210 freeze watches
- Average year
- 3over 16 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.
- Cook County13
- Lake County13
- Saint Louis County13
- Aitkin County11
- Koochiching County11
- Carlton County10
- Itasca County10
- Cass County9
- Pine County9
- Crow Wing County8
- Becker County8
- Beltrami County8
- Clearwater County8
- Hubbard County8
- Wadena County8
- Kittson County7
- Lake of the Woods County7
- Mahnomen County7
- Marshall County7
- Norman County7
- Otter Tail County7
- Pennington County7
- Polk County7
- Red Lake County7
- Roseau County7
- Traverse County7
- Benton County7
- Kandiyohi County7
- Mille Lacs County7
- Morrison County7
- Todd County7
- Big Stone County6
- Clay County6
- Grant County6
- Wilkin County6
- Dodge County6
- Fillmore County6
- Houston County6
- Mower County6
- Olmsted County6
47 more counties
- Wabasha County6
- Winona County6
- Chippewa County6
- Douglas County6
- Isanti County6
- Kanabec County6
- Meeker County6
- Pipestone County6
- Pope County6
- Rock County6
- Stearns County6
- Stevens County6
- Swift County6
- Carver County5
- Lac qui Parle County5
- Lincoln County5
- McLeod County5
- Murray County5
- Nobles County5
- Renville County5
- Sibley County5
- Wright County5
- Yellow Medicine County5
- Chisago County5
- Blue Earth County4
- Brown County4
- Cottonwood County4
- Faribault County4
- Freeborn County4
- Jackson County4
- Le Sueur County4
- Lyon County4
- Martin County4
- Nicollet County4
- Redwood County4
- Rice County4
- Scott County4
- Sherburne County4
- Steele County4
- Waseca County4
- Watonwan County4
- Anoka County4
- Washington County4
- Dakota County3
- Goodhue County3
- Hennepin County3
- Ramsey County3
The latest freeze watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 2:01 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | MPX | Benton, Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Mille Lacs and 6 more | 23 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.