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Winter Storm Watches in Minnesota, 2015

18 winter storm watches in 2015. 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 watches reaches back to 2005.

Winter Storm Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches
18
Busiest month
December10 winter storm watches
Busiest day
January 3, 20153 winter storm watches

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 1, 4:21 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchFGFBeltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more24 hr
Jan 1, 3:03 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLHKoochiching, Saint Louis13 hr
Jan 3, 3:10 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXDodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted37 hr
Jan 3, 3:36 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDCottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more37 hr
Jan 3, 3:44 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchMPXBlue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Faribault, Freeborn, Lac qui Parle and 11 more36 hr
Nov 28, 2:41 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDCottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more25 hr
Nov 28, 3:29 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchMPXAnoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 33 more36 hr
Nov 29, 2:52 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFGFGrant, Otter Tail, Wilkin14 hr
Dec 14, 3:42 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchABRBig Stone, Traverse24 hr
Dec 14, 4:05 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchFGFBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more35 hr
Dec 15, 3:43 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLHCass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Koochiching11 hr
Dec 21, 3:27 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchFGFBeltrami, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington, Polk and 2 more24 hr
Dec 25, 2:58 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchMPXChippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Redwood, Renville, Swift and 1 more12 hr
Dec 25, 3:48 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLHCarlton, Saint Louis11 hr
Dec 26, 2:51 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDCottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more37 hr
Dec 26, 3:05 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchMPXAnoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 29 more37 hr
Dec 26, 3:25 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXDodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more24 hr
Dec 27, 3:58 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLHPine24 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

42 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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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.