Alert archive / Minnesota / Winter Storm Watches / 2016
Winter Storm Watches in Minnesota, December 2016
8 winter storm watches in December 2016. 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 December 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- December 14, 20164 winter storm watches
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 14, 3:30 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 31 hr |
| Dec 14, 3:35 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 32 hr |
| Dec 14, 4:05 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 32 more | 35 hr |
| Dec 14, 3:48 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | DLH | Pine | 23 hr |
| Dec 22, 4:53 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 48 hr |
| Dec 22, 3:45 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 11 more | 3 days |
| Dec 22, 3:49 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 3 more | 37 hr |
| Dec 23, 3:22 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MPX | Benton, Douglas, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Pope, Stearns and 2 more | 24 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Pope County2
- Stearns County2
- Dodge County1
- Fillmore County1
- Houston County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted County1
- Wabasha County1
- Winona County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Jackson County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Murray County1
- Nobles County1
- Pipestone County1
- Rock County1
- Anoka County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Carver County1
- Chippewa County1
- Chisago County1
- Dakota County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- Kanabec County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Le Sueur County1
- McLeod County1
- Martin County1
- Meeker County1
- Nicollet County1
- Ramsey County1
46 more counties
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Sibley County1
- Steele County1
- Swift County1
- Waseca County1
- Washington County1
- Watonwan County1
- Wright County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Pine County1
- Big Stone County1
- Traverse County1
- Becker County1
- Beltrami County1
- Clay County1
- Clearwater County1
- Grant County1
- Hubbard County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Marshall County1
- Norman County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Wadena County1
- Wilkin County1
- Aitkin County1
- Carlton County1
- Cass County1
- Cook County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Itasca County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Douglas County1
- Morrison County1
- Stevens County1
- Todd 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.