A passing storm system swept warmer northward leading to freezing rain and freezing drizzle across parts of southeast Minnesota during the late afternoon hours on January 3rd through the early morning hours on January 4th. The thin coating of ice created hazardous travel conditions and icy roadways across southeast Minnesota.
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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 episode as NWS ARX wrote it up.
A passing storm system swept warmer northward leading to freezing rain and freezing drizzle across parts of southeast Minnesota during the late afternoon hours on January 3rd through the early morning hours on January 4th. The thin coating of ice created hazardous travel conditions and icy roadways across southeast Minnesota.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
7 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Approximately one tenth of an inch of ice accumulation was observed throughout the county.
The general public measured a tenth of an inch of ice accumulation 1 mile south of Peterson.
Broadcast media estimated less than a tenth of inch of ice accumulation between Spring Grove and Eitzen.
National Weather Service employee in Austin measured three sixteenths of an inch of ice accumulation and a cooperative observer in Grand Meadow reported a light glaze on exposed surfaces.
Cooperative observer near Rochester Airport reported less than a tenth of an inch of ice accumulation.
Amateur Radio estimated a tenth of an inch of ice accumulation 1 mile west of Reeds Landing.
Emergency Manager estimates around a tenth to two tenths of an inch of ice accumulation in Winona and icy roadways throughout county.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 143641, 143643, 143646, 143647, 143648, 143649, 143650.