Heavy Snow Warnings in Minnesota
29 heavy snow 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 heavy snow warnings reaches back to 2005.
Heavy Snow Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Heavy Snow Warnings
- 29
- Busiest year
- 200610 heavy snow warnings
- Average year
- 7over 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.
- Lake County6
- Saint Louis County6
- Marshall County5
- Cook County4
- Goodhue County4
- Jackson County4
- Kittson County4
- Carlton County3
- Houston County3
- Blue Earth County3
- Clearwater County3
- Cottonwood County3
- Pennington County3
- Polk County3
- Rice County3
- Watonwan County3
- Lincoln County3
- Murray County3
- Nobles County3
- Pipestone County3
- Rock County3
- Fillmore County2
- Olmsted County2
- Winona County2
- Anoka County2
- Beltrami County2
- Brown County2
- Carver County2
- Chisago County2
- Dakota County2
- Freeborn County2
- Hennepin County2
- Isanti County2
- Itasca County2
- Le Sueur County2
- McLeod County2
- Meeker County2
- Nicollet County2
- Ramsey County2
- Redwood County2
40 more counties
- Renville County2
- Roseau County2
- Scott County2
- Sherburne County2
- Sibley County2
- Steele County2
- Washington County2
- Wright County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Big Stone County2
- Faribault County2
- Lyon County2
- Martin County2
- Red Lake County2
- Waseca County2
- Dodge County1
- Mower County1
- Wabasha County1
- Aitkin County1
- Cass County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Becker County1
- Clay County1
- Hubbard County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Norman County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Wadena County1
- Benton County1
- Chippewa County1
- Kanabec County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Pine County1
- Stearns County1
- Swift County1
- Traverse County1
- Wilkin County1
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.