Alert archive / Minnesota / Winter Storm Watches / 2017
Winter Storm Watches in Minnesota, February 2017
6 winter storm watches in February 2017. 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 February 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- February 22, 20173 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 3:30 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 31 more | 45 hr |
| Feb 21, 3:59 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 36 hr |
| Feb 22, 2:58 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ABR | Big Stone | 24 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:41 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | DLH | Pine | 35 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:49 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ARX | Dodge, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 24 hr |
| Feb 23, 3:31 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ARX | Fillmore, Houston | 12 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Anoka County1
- Benton 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
- Mille Lacs County1
- Nicollet County1
- Ramsey County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Sibley County1
- Stearns County1
- Steele County1
- Swift County1
- Waseca County1
- Washington County1
- Watonwan County1
- Wright County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Jackson County1
- Lincoln 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.