Snow Advisories in Minnesota
104 snow advisories 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 snow advisories reaches back to 2005.
Snow Advisories by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Snow Advisories
- 104
- Busiest year
- 200737 snow advisories
- Average year
- 26over 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.
- Saint Louis County23
- Carlton County19
- Cottonwood County17
- Jackson County17
- Murray County16
- Nobles County16
- Faribault County14
- Lyon County14
- Martin County14
- Rock County14
- Watonwan County14
- Lake County13
- Lincoln County13
- Pine County13
- Pipestone County13
- Waseca County13
- Aitkin County12
- Blue Earth County12
- Brown County12
- Cass County12
- Freeborn County12
- Kandiyohi County12
- Stearns County12
- Anoka County11
- Benton County11
- Dakota County11
- Itasca County11
- Kanabec County11
- Morrison County11
- Rice County11
- Steele County11
- Wabasha County11
- Washington County11
- Becker County10
- Chisago County10
- Clay County10
- Dodge County10
- Fillmore County10
- Goodhue County10
- Houston County10
47 more counties
- Isanti County10
- Le Sueur County10
- Meeker County10
- Mille Lacs County10
- Mower County10
- Nicollet County10
- Olmsted County10
- Ramsey County10
- Redwood County10
- Scott County10
- Sherburne County10
- Todd County10
- Winona County10
- Wright County10
- Cook County9
- Crow Wing County9
- Douglas County9
- Hennepin County9
- Carver County8
- Chippewa County8
- Pope County8
- Stevens County8
- Swift County8
- Wilkin County8
- Beltrami County8
- Roseau County8
- Hubbard County7
- Koochiching County7
- Lac qui Parle County7
- McLeod County7
- Sibley County7
- Yellow Medicine County7
- Big Stone County7
- Clearwater County7
- Marshall County7
- Norman County7
- Pennington County7
- Red Lake County7
- Traverse County7
- Grant County6
- Renville County6
- Kittson County6
- Lake of the Woods County6
- Mahnomen County6
- Polk County6
- Otter Tail County5
- Wadena County4
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.