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Winter Storm Watches in Minnesota, 2025

41 winter storm watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches
41
Busiest month
March17 winter storm watches
Busiest day
February 6, 20254 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 30, 1:36 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLHCook, Lake, Saint Louis24 hr
Feb 6, 2:24 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchABRBig Stone, Traverse24 hr
Feb 6, 2:29 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchMPXAnoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 32 more30 hr
Feb 6, 3:37 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXDodge, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona33 hr
Feb 6, 2:07 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFGFGrant, Otter Tail, Wadena, Wilkin12 hr
Mar 3, 2:56 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchMPXBlue Earth, Dakota, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Le Sueur and 6 more24 hr
Mar 3, 3:21 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXDodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more24 hr
Mar 3, 3:51 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDCottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 1 more24 hr
Mar 13, 3:00 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchFGFBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more23 hr
Mar 13, 3:05 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchMPXChippewa, Douglas, Lac qui Parle, Pope, Stevens, Swift and 1 more23 hr
Mar 13, 3:07 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchFSDLincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock23 hr
Mar 13, 3:15 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchABRBig Stone, Traverse22 hr
Mar 17, 3:13 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchFSDCottonwood, Jackson, Nobles24 hr
Mar 17, 3:14 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchMPXBlue Earth, Brown, Dakota, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue and 9 more34 hr
Mar 17, 3:31 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchARXDodge, Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona35 hr
Mar 21, 2:28 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchDLHCarlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis25 hr
Mar 26, 3:01 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchDLHCarlton, Cook, Lake, Saint Louis22 hr
Mar 28, 2:06 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchDLHCarlton, Pine, Saint Louis13 hr
Mar 30, 2:31 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchABRBig Stone, Traverse37 hr
Mar 30, 2:33 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchFGFBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 6 more37 hr
Mar 30, 7:33 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchDLHAitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more31 hr
Mar 31, 2:23 AM CDTWinter Storm WatchMPXBenton, Douglas, Isanti, Kanabec, Kandiyohi, Meeker and 9 more25 hr
Nov 23, 2:10 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFGFBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 10 more24 hr
Nov 23, 2:28 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLHAitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 3 more24 hr
Nov 24, 1:42 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchMPXBenton, Douglas, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Pope and 3 more25 hr
Nov 24, 2:53 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchABRTraverse11 hr
Nov 26, 2:26 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDCottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more24 hr
Nov 27, 2:22 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchMPXBlue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Nicollet and 4 more12 hr
Nov 27, 2:48 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXDodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Winona24 hr
Dec 7, 2:06 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFGFBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson and 9 more24 hr
Dec 8, 2:35 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLHAitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Pine, Saint Louis12 hr
Dec 8, 3:26 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchMPXAnoka, Benton, Chisago, Douglas, Isanti, Kanabec and 7 more12 hr
Dec 8, 2:45 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFSDCottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more21 hr
Dec 8, 3:15 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchMPXBlue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Faribault, Freeborn, Lac qui Parle and 9 more22 hr
Dec 16, 2:01 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchABRTraverse22 hr
Dec 16, 2:05 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLHCook, Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis24 hr
Dec 16, 2:06 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFGFBeltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall and 6 more23 hr
Dec 26, 1:38 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchDLHCarlton, Pine, Saint Louis24 hr
Dec 27, 3:34 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchMPXAnoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more18 hr
Dec 27, 3:38 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchARXDodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more11 hr
Dec 27, 1:37 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchFGFBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more10 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. February 6, 20254winter storm watches
  2. March 13, 20254winter storm watches
  3. December 8, 20254winter storm watches
  4. March 3, 20253winter storm watches
  5. March 17, 20253winter storm watches
  6. December 16, 20253winter storm watches
  7. December 27, 20253winter storm watches
  8. March 30, 20252winter storm watches
  9. March 31, 20252winter storm watches
  10. November 23, 20252winter storm watches
  11. November 24, 20252winter storm watches
  12. November 27, 20252winter 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.