2 winter storm, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Twin Cities, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 13, 10:30 AM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1030 AM CST SUN JAN 13 2002
WELL DVLPD COMMA NR FSD MVG E WITH SECOND VORT DIVING SE INTO NW
SODAK. GUD WAA AND ISENTROPIC LIFT ATTM...BUT VRY DRY AMS HAS ONLY
PRODUCED THICKENING MID CLDS. LOTS OF PACIFIC MOISTURE TO WORK WITH
MVG ACRS THE DAKS WHICH WILL EVENTUALLY GET INTO THE SYSTEM. ABR
12Z RAOB HAS A PWAT OF .51. SO FAR HON HAS HAD NEARLY A HALF INCH
OF RAIN. RAIN IN E SODAK BGNNG TO CHG TO SNW WITH SNW ATTM AT ABR
AND BKX. MODELS HAVE ALL COME CLOSER TO THE AVN TRACK EARLIER
ADVERTIZED. ONCE PCPN BGNS IT SHUD BE OF RATHER LONG DURATION WITH
VERY SLOWLY MVG MID LVL LOW TRACKING NR MN/IA BRDR. DELAYED ONSET
OF SNW AND ACCUMS ABT 6 HRS MUCH OF CWA IN UPDATE...BUT AMTS STILL
LK GUD WITH SOME 3 TO 5 INCH ACCUMS PSBL. DRY AIR IN PLACE ACRS
MOST OF CWA AND ELY TRAJ SHUD FAVOR RAPID CHG TO SNW WHERE A MIX
DVLPS EXPCET PERHAPS SW AREAS. IN MRNG UPDATED MENTIONED SOME ADTL
ACCUMS WI CWA FOR MONDAY. WILL REVISIT ANY EXPANSION OF ADVYS IN
AFTN PKG.
.MSP...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY TODAY AND THIS EVENING..WESTERN ZONES
WEST AND SOUTH OF LINE KMOX...KLJF...KRWF.
PAULSONThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Low pressure tracked from near Sioux Falls SD to the La Crosse WI area, producing a small area of heavy snow. Totals include 7 inches at Bellingham and 6 inches at Holloway.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, January 2002
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5282186, 5282187.