Alert archive / Minnesota / Winter Storm Watches / 2018
Winter Storm Watches in Minnesota, March 2018
13 winter storm watches in March 2018. 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 March 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Watches
- 13
- Busiest day
- March 3, 20184 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 2:58 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 47 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:17 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Koochiching and 3 more | 36 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:39 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Goodhue and 14 more | 36 hr |
| Mar 3, 4:05 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson and 11 more | 35 hr |
| Mar 3, 2:18 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 25 hr |
| Mar 21, 3:18 PM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | FGF | Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Wilkin | 24 hr |
| Mar 21, 3:50 PM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota, Douglas and 25 more | 36 hr |
| Mar 21, 3:52 PM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 24 hr |
| Mar 21, 8:27 PM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray | 31 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:23 AM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 29, 2:59 AM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | MPX | Douglas, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Todd | 25 hr |
| Mar 29, 3:14 AM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Lake and 2 more | 25 hr |
| Mar 29, 3:54 AM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 9 more | 25 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County3
- Otter Tail County3
- Wilkin County3
- Big Stone County2
- Traverse County2
- Aitkin County2
- Carlton County2
- Cass County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Itasca County2
- Lake County2
- Pine County2
- Saint Louis County2
- Carver County2
- Dakota County2
- Goodhue County2
- Hennepin County2
- Kanabec County2
- McLeod County2
- Meeker County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Morrison County2
- Scott County2
- Stearns County2
- Todd County2
- Wright County2
- Becker County2
- Beltrami County2
- Clearwater County2
- Hubbard County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Marshall County2
- Norman County2
- Pennington County2
- Polk County2
- Red Lake County2
- Wadena County2
- Dodge County2
- Fillmore County2
- Houston County2
43 more counties
- Mower County2
- Olmsted County2
- Wabasha County2
- Winona County2
- Grant County2
- Douglas County2
- Koochiching County1
- Anoka County1
- Benton County1
- Chisago County1
- Isanti County1
- Ramsey County1
- Sherburne County1
- Washington County1
- Kittson County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Roseau County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Chippewa County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Martin County1
- Nicollet County1
- Pope County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Rice County1
- Sibley County1
- Steele County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Waseca County1
- Watonwan County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Jackson County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Murray 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.