A strong arctic front surged southward across the Upper Midwest early Wednesday morning January 22nd. After blizzard conditions subsided during the afternoon, skies cleared and temperatures dropped into the teens below zero.
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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 MPX wrote it up.
A strong arctic front surged southward across the Upper Midwest early Wednesday morning January 22nd. After blizzard conditions subsided during the afternoon, skies cleared and temperatures dropped into the teens below zero. As winds continued around 10 to 15 mph, wind chill values dropped to -35F through Thursday morning, January 23rd.
Some of the lowest wind chills during this period include;
-44 degrees at St. Cloud.|-43 degrees at Glenwood. |-43 degrees at Sauk Centre. |-42 degrees at Long Prairie.|-42 degrees at Princeton. |-41 degrees at Alexandria.|-41 degrees at Hutchinson. |-41 degrees at Lakeville. |-40 degrees at Morris. |-40 degrees at Owatonna.
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 22, 5:10 PM CST, 50 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
42 extreme cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county. One of the lowest wind chill value was -41 degrees that occurred at the Alexandria airport.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county. One of the lowest wind chill value was -43 degrees that occurred at the Glenwood airport.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county. One of the lowest wind chill value was -43 degrees that occurred at the Sauk Centre airport.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county. One of the lowest wind chill value was -40 degrees that occurred at the Morris airport.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county. One of the lowest wind chill value was -42 degrees that occurred at the Long Prairie airport.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county. One of the lowest wind chill value was -41 degrees that occurred at the Hutchinson airport.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county. One of the lowest wind chill value was -41 degrees that occurred at the Lakeville airport.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county. One of the lowest wind chill value was -42 degrees that occurred at the Princeton airport.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero across the county during the morning of Thursday, January 23rd.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county. One of the lowest wind chill value was -44 degrees that occurred at the St. Cloud airport.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county. One of the lowest wind chill value was -40 degrees that occurred at the Owatonna airport.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
Wind chill values dropped to 35 below zero for several hours across the county.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, January 2014
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