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Extreme Cold Warnings in North Dakota, 2025
15 extreme cold warnings 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 extreme cold warnings reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Warnings
- 15
- Busiest month
- February10 extreme cold warnings
- Busiest day
- January 17, 20252 extreme cold warnings
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 1:31 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Burke, Divide, Renville | 22 hr |
| Jan 17, 2:00 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FGF | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more | 4 days |
| Jan 17, 2:27 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 26 more | 4 days |
| Feb 9, 1:28 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 26 more | 47 hr |
| Feb 10, 3:00 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FGF | Barnes, Benson, Cavalier, Eddy, Griggs, Nelson and 6 more | 33 hr |
| Feb 10, 5:56 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Burke, Divide, Renville, Williams | 18 hr |
| Feb 11, 11:39 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 26 more | 48 hr |
| Feb 11, 11:22 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FGF | Ransom, Richland, Sargent | 10 hr |
| Feb 12, 12:26 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Ransom, Richland, Sargent, Towner | 24 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:22 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 26 more | 3 days |
| Feb 16, 1:53 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FGF | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Grand Forks and 11 more | 58 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:44 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FGF | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Griggs and 9 more | 31 hr |
| Feb 19, 3:08 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | BIS | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 21 more | 21 hr |
| Dec 11, 9:30 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | BIS | Burke, Divide, Mountrail, Williams | 15 hr |
| Dec 12, 2:33 PM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Grand Forks, Nelson, Pembina, Ramsey, Towner and 1 more | 21 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Burke County8
- Divide County8
- Bottineau County7
- Renville County7
- Williams County7
- Cavalier County6
- Ransom County6
- Sargent County6
- Towner County6
- Mountrail County6
- Nelson County5
- Ramsey County5
- Richland County5
- Walsh County5
- Adams County5
- Billings County5
- Bowman County5
- Burleigh County5
- Dunn County5
- Emmons County5
- Golden Valley County5
- Grant County5
- Hettinger County5
- Kidder County5
- Logan County5
- McHenry County5
- McIntosh County5
- McKenzie County5
- Mercer County5
- Oliver County5
- Pierce County5
- Sheridan County5
- Slope County5
- Stark County5
- Wells County5
- Barnes County4
- Benson County4
- Eddy County4
- Griggs County4
- Pembina County4
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.