Alert archive / Minnesota / Winter Storm Watches
Winter Storm Watches in Minnesota, 2021
27 winter storm watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Watches
- 27
- Busiest month
- December8 winter storm watches
- Busiest day
- January 13, 20215 winter storm watches
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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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 3:35 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Jan 13, 3:47 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | DLH | Carlton, Lake, Pine, Saint Louis | 24 hr |
| Jan 13, 10:37 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 31 more | 17 hr |
| Jan 13, 10:56 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 10 hr |
| Jan 13, 2:43 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 12 hr |
| Jan 22, 2:41 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Lac qui Parle, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Redwood and 7 more | 12 hr |
| Feb 2, 2:29 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 23 hr |
| Feb 3, 3:22 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Martin, Rice and 3 more | 11 hr |
| Feb 27, 3:52 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone and 1 more | 11 hr |
| Feb 27, 3:54 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Martin, Nicollet, Redwood, Watonwan | 11 hr |
| Mar 9, 4:04 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 13, 3:20 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ARX | Mower | 24 hr |
| Mar 13, 3:22 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Le Sueur, Martin and 8 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 13, 3:24 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Nov 10, 3:26 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 24 hr |
| Nov 10, 2:52 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | DLH | Itasca, Koochiching, Saint Louis | 13 hr |
| Nov 10, 3:06 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more | 13 hr |
| Nov 11, 2:34 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MPX | Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Pope and 5 more | 9 hr |
| Nov 11, 3:11 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone | 8 hr |
| Dec 3, 3:22 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 11 more | 35 hr |
| Dec 3, 3:24 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Dec 8, 2:41 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 35 hr |
| Dec 8, 3:06 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Faribault, Freeborn and 16 more | 33 hr |
| Dec 8, 3:31 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone and 1 more | 32 hr |
| Dec 25, 3:11 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MPX | Chisago, Douglas, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison and 1 more | 24 hr |
| Dec 25, 3:15 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more | 24 hr |
| Dec 25, 3:21 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 24 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blue Earth County6
- Brown County6
- Redwood County6
- Watonwan County6
- Cottonwood County5
- Lyon County5
- Murray County5
- Pipestone County5
- Saint Louis County5
- Martin County5
- Nicollet County5
- Renville County5
- Steele County5
- Waseca County5
- Jackson County4
- Nobles County4
- Rock County4
- Carlton County4
- Lake County4
- Faribault County4
- Freeborn County4
- Le Sueur County4
- Rice County4
- Sibley County4
- Yellow Medicine County4
- Mower County4
- Itasca County4
- Lincoln County3
- Goodhue County3
- Lac qui Parle County3
- Dodge County3
- Fillmore County3
- Olmsted County3
- Wabasha County3
- Winona County3
- Aitkin County3
- Cass County3
- Cook County3
- Koochiching County3
- Beltrami County3
46 more counties
- Clearwater County3
- Kittson County3
- Lake of the Woods County3
- Marshall County3
- Pennington County3
- Polk County3
- Red Lake County3
- Roseau County3
- Pine County2
- Carver County2
- Chippewa County2
- Chisago County2
- Dakota County2
- Hennepin County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- McLeod County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Ramsey County2
- Scott County2
- Stevens County2
- Swift County2
- Washington County2
- Big Stone County2
- Traverse County2
- Houston County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Douglas County2
- Becker County2
- Clay County2
- Grant County2
- Hubbard County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Norman County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Wilkin County2
- Anoka County1
- Benton County1
- Meeker County1
- Sherburne County1
- Wright County1
- Pope County1
- Morrison County1
- Todd County1
- Wadena County1
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. Rebuilt daily.