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Winter Storm Watches in Minnesota, 2024

19 winter storm watches in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches
19
Busiest month
March6 winter storm watches
Busiest day
March 22, 20245 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 6, 3:09 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDRock35 hr
Jan 8, 2:34 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXDodge, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona9 hr
Jan 10, 2:28 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXDodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more24 hr
Jan 10, 2:32 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchMPXAnoka, Blue Earth, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Faribault and 18 more25 hr
Jan 10, 3:12 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDJackson, Nobles, Rock12 hr
Feb 25, 3:30 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFGFBeltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Marshall and 5 more28 hr
Feb 26, 2:50 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLHKoochiching, Saint Louis12 hr
Mar 22, 3:24 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchMPXAnoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more34 hr
Mar 22, 3:41 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchFSDCottonwood, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone59 hr
Mar 22, 3:46 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchDLHAitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more33 hr
Mar 22, 3:46 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchFGFBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more34 hr
Mar 22, 4:20 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchABRBig Stone, Traverse33 hr
Mar 23, 4:04 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchARXDodge, Wabasha10 hr
Oct 30, 3:29 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchDLHAitkin, Carlton, Lake, Pine, Saint Louis17 hr
Dec 2, 2:12 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLHCook12 hr
Dec 3, 12:33 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFGFClay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Polk15 hr
Dec 6, 1:15 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLHCook, Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis25 hr
Dec 17, 1:52 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFGFBecker, Clay, Grant, Norman, Otter Tail, Polk and 1 more23 hr
Dec 18, 3:36 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLHCarlton, Cook, Lake, Saint Louis10 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. March 22, 20245winter storm watches
  2. January 10, 20243winter storm watches
  3. January 6, 20241winter storm watches
  4. January 8, 20241winter storm watches
  5. February 25, 20241winter storm watches
  6. February 26, 20241winter storm watches
  7. March 23, 20241winter storm watches
  8. October 30, 20241winter storm watches
  9. December 2, 20241winter storm watches
  10. December 3, 20241winter storm watches
  11. December 6, 20241winter storm watches
  12. December 17, 20241winter 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.