Alert archive / Minnesota / Winter Storm Warnings / 2008
Winter Storm Warnings in Minnesota, December 2008
16 winter storm warnings in December 2008. 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 winter storm warnings reaches back to 2005.
Winter Storm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in December 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Warnings
- 16
- Busiest day
- December 8, 20082 winter storm warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 4:55 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 33 hr |
| Dec 8, 1:43 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 19 hr |
| Dec 10, 10:02 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DLH | Cook, Lake, Saint Louis | 16 hr |
| Dec 12, 3:33 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more | 68 hr |
| Dec 13, 4:03 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods, Otter Tail and 1 more | 48 hr |
| Dec 13, 4:36 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | MPX | Benton, Chippewa, Douglas, Kanabec, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 8 more | 31 hr |
| Dec 17, 3:48 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Winona | 44 hr |
| Dec 18, 10:35 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn | 22 hr |
| Dec 19, 4:01 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 38 hr |
| Dec 19, 3:14 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more | 63 hr |
| Dec 20, 3:19 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 39 hr |
| Dec 20, 3:55 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 34 more | 38 hr |
| Dec 23, 3:52 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DLH | Cook, Lake, Saint Louis | 5 hr |
| Dec 29, 10:51 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Wadena, Wilkin | 28 hr |
| Dec 30, 2:17 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Chisago, Douglas, Isanti, Kanabec and 6 more | 16 hr |
| Dec 30, 9:07 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Pine | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cook County4
- Lake County4
- Saint Louis County4
- Dodge County3
- Fillmore County3
- Houston County3
- Mower County3
- Olmsted County3
- Winona County3
- Faribault County3
- Freeborn County3
- Aitkin County3
- Cass County3
- Crow Wing County3
- Pine County3
- Becker County3
- Otter Tail County3
- Wadena County3
- Benton County3
- Douglas County3
- Kanabec County3
- Mille Lacs County3
- Morrison County3
- Stearns County3
- Todd County3
- Wabasha County2
- Steele County2
- Waseca County2
- Carlton County2
- Itasca County2
- Koochiching County2
- Beltrami County2
- Clearwater County2
- Hubbard County2
- Lake of the Woods County2
- Chippewa County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Pope County2
- Stevens County2
35 more counties
- Swift County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Clay County2
- Grant County2
- Wilkin County2
- Anoka County2
- Chisago County2
- Isanti County2
- Sherburne County2
- Washington County2
- Kittson County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Marshall County1
- Norman County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Carver County1
- Dakota County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Le Sueur County1
- McLeod County1
- Martin County1
- Meeker County1
- Ramsey County1
- Redwood County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sibley County1
- Watonwan County1
- Wright County1
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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.