Alert archive / Minnesota / Winter Storm Warnings
Winter Storm Warnings in Minnesota, 2026
18 winter storm warnings in 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Warnings
- 18
- Busiest month
- March8 winter storm warnings
- Busiest day
- March 13, 20265 winter storm warnings
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 16, 1:23 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DLH | Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis | 55 hr |
| Feb 17, 8:57 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall and 5 more | 39 hr |
| Feb 19, 11:30 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | ARX | Houston | 25 hr |
| Feb 23, 1:03 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DLH | Cook | 32 hr |
| Mar 11, 12:54 PM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | DLH | Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis | 54 hr |
| Mar 11, 1:49 PM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more | 36 hr |
| Mar 13, 9:37 AM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 28 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:30 AM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | FGF | Grant, Otter Tail, Wadena, Wilkin | 46 hr |
| Mar 13, 12:28 PM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 54 hr |
| Mar 13, 12:58 PM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Pine, Saint Louis | 60 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:23 PM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 44 hr |
| Mar 15, 3:07 PM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Hennepin, Ramsey, Sibley and 1 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 1, 1:13 AM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | DLH | Cook, Lake, Saint Louis | 54 hr |
| Apr 1, 3:11 AM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | MPX | Brown, Carver, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin, Le Sueur and 9 more | 33 hr |
| Apr 2, 12:42 PM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | ABR | Traverse | 52 hr |
| Apr 2, 12:52 PM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 11 more | 54 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:10 AM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more | 45 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:23 AM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Morrison, Todd | 33 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cook County5
- Saint Louis County5
- Carlton County4
- Lake County4
- Itasca County3
- Koochiching County3
- Beltrami County3
- Clearwater County3
- Lake of the Woods County3
- Marshall County3
- Pennington County3
- Polk County3
- Red Lake County3
- Roseau County3
- Carver County3
- Hennepin County3
- Ramsey County3
- Sibley County3
- Washington County3
- Clay County2
- Kittson County2
- Norman County2
- Houston County2
- Anoka County2
- Brown County2
- Chisago County2
- Dakota County2
- Douglas County2
- Goodhue County2
- Le Sueur County2
- McLeod County2
- Morrison County2
- Nicollet County2
- Redwood County2
- Renville County2
- Rice County2
- Scott County2
- Todd County2
- Grant County2
- Otter Tail County2
39 more counties
- Wadena County2
- Wilkin County2
- Aitkin County2
- Cass County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Pine County2
- Traverse County2
- Benton County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Chippewa County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Isanti County1
- Kanabec County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Martin County1
- Meeker County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Pope County1
- Sherburne County1
- Stearns County1
- Steele County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Waseca County1
- Watonwan County1
- Wright County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Dodge County1
- Fillmore County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted County1
- Wabasha County1
- Winona County1
- Big Stone County1
- Becker County1
- Hubbard County1
- Mahnomen County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.