Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Big Stone
- When
- February 2, 7:50 AM CST to 9:00 AM CST
- Where
- Big Stone forecast zone
- Reported by
- Mesonet
- Coordinates
- 45.426, -96.411 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Extreme Cold in Minnesota, February 2, 2022
After an Arctic front pushed through the region, cold temperatures and breezy conditions resulted in dangerous wind chills Wednesday morning with wind chills as low as 38 degrees below zero.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS ABR wrote it up.
After an Arctic front pushed through the region, cold temperatures and breezy conditions resulted in dangerous wind chills Wednesday morning with wind chills as low as 38 degrees below zero.
What forecasters said that day
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 Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 2, 5:25 AM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 2, 5:25 AM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes before
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The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 extreme cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill
- Temperatures or wind chills at or below the local warning criteria, or cold that caused deaths.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Heavy Rain in American Samoa, February 2 to 3, 2022
- Strong Wind in Arizona, February 2, 2022
- Ice Storm and Winter Storm in Ohio, February 2 to 4, 2022
- Winter Storm in Ohio, February 2 to 4, 2022
- Winter Storm in Indiana, February 2 to 3, 2022
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, February 2022
Sources
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: 1002224.