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Winter Storm Watches in Minnesota, 2020

33 winter storm watches in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches
33
Busiest month
January7 winter storm watches
Busiest day
January 15, 20206 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 7, 3:04 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLHCook, Lake, Saint Louis24 hr
Jan 15, 2:34 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchABRBig Stone, Traverse37 hr
Jan 15, 2:44 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDCottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more37 hr
Jan 15, 2:53 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFGFBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more38 hr
Jan 15, 2:53 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchMPXAnoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more21 hr
Jan 15, 2:56 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLHAitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more24 hr
Jan 15, 3:25 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXDodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more21 hr
Feb 7, 2:37 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXDodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more25 hr
Feb 7, 3:06 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchMPXBlue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Le Sueur and 7 more25 hr
Feb 7, 3:08 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDCottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more24 hr
Feb 8, 4:30 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchMPXAnoka, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota, Hennepin, Kandiyohi and 10 more11 hr
Feb 10, 3:31 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchFGFClay, Grant, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Otter Tail and 2 more35 hr
Feb 11, 2:19 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchMPXBlue Earth, Douglas, Faribault, Kandiyohi, McLeod, Martin and 4 more14 hr
Mar 27, 3:48 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchDLHAitkin, Carlton, Cook, Lake, Saint Louis24 hr
Apr 1, 3:46 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchMPXChippewa, Douglas, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift and 1 more24 hr
Apr 1, 4:00 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchABRBig Stone, Traverse11 hr
Apr 1, 4:37 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchFGFBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more23 hr
Apr 10, 3:09 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchARXDodge, Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona24 hr
Apr 10, 3:30 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchMPXBlue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Faribault, Freeborn and 13 more23 hr
Apr 10, 3:32 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchFSDJackson23 hr
Oct 20, 3:19 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchFGFBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 8 more24 hr
Oct 20, 4:13 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchABRBig Stone, Traverse23 hr
Oct 21, 4:07 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchMPXBenton, Douglas, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Pope and 4 more11 hr
Oct 21, 4:29 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchDLHAitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 3 more11 hr
Nov 9, 2:46 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchMPXAnoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 19 more14 hr
Nov 9, 3:04 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLHCarlton, Cook, Lake, Pine, Saint Louis13 hr
Nov 9, 3:29 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDCottonwood, Jackson, Nobles12 hr
Dec 21, 4:30 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchFGFBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more35 hr
Dec 22, 3:49 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchMPXAnoka, Benton, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 28 more23 hr
Dec 22, 3:54 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDCottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more17 hr
Dec 22, 3:58 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchABRBig Stone, Traverse10 hr
Dec 22, 5:25 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLHAitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more22 hr
Dec 27, 7:00 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDNobles, Rock8 hr

By county

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

47 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 15, 20206winter storm watches
  2. December 22, 20204winter storm watches
  3. February 7, 20203winter storm watches
  4. April 1, 20203winter storm watches
  5. April 10, 20203winter storm watches
  6. November 9, 20203winter storm watches
  7. October 20, 20202winter storm watches
  8. October 21, 20202winter storm watches
  9. January 7, 20201winter storm watches
  10. February 8, 20201winter storm watches
  11. February 10, 20201winter storm watches
  12. February 11, 20201winter storm watches

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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.