A strong area of low pressure advanced across the Central United States. Given its track, the northern sector of this storm contained plentiful moisture and supply of warm air advection from the south.
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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 area of low pressure advanced across the Central United States. Given its track, the northern sector of this storm contained plentiful moisture and supply of warm air advection from the south. Mixed precipitation types were observed with this storm. For Eastern Minnesota, most areas would observe a mix of rain and snow in the overnight hours Sunday night which transitioned to freezing rain during the daytime hours Monday. A winter weather advisory was issued for freezing rain, occasionally mixed with snow. Total snow accumulations of up to 1-3 inches, ice accumulations ranging from a tenth to two tenths of an inch, and winds gusting to 35 mph were reported.
Using CoCoRaHS reports and Mn511 road condition reports, social media reports, and traffic cameras, areas mainly from the Twin Cities metro and northward received freezing rain. A few photos shared on social media showed ice accretion on small tree branches, as well as sidewalks/driveways having a thin layer of ice. Farther north, a few spinouts were captured on Mn511 traffic cameras near Hwy 610 at Elm Creek Blvd, and spinouts were reported along the I-94 corridor between Maple Grove, MN and Clearwater, MN.
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 Feb 26, 11:05 PM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
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CoCoRaHS observations reported a very slight (< 1/16) glaze of ice on road and sidewalk surfaces north and south of St. Cloud, MN.
CoCoRaHS observations reported a very slight (< 1/16) glaze of ice on road and sidewalk surfaces north and south of St. Cloud, MN and also reports of freezing drizzle in Anoka County, MN.
Reports of freezing drizzle north of Anoka, MN and Ramsey, MN and Mn511.org traffic cameras detailed a couple of spinouts near Lino Lakes, MN along the I-35W corridor.
CoCoRaHS observations to the east and west reported freezing drizzle in the Southern Portion of Anoka County in MN and in Central Polk County, WI. There were also reports of light icing on the roadways. High icing accretion occurred farther east into Wisconsin.
CoCoRaHS observations to the east and west reported freezing drizzle in the Southern Portion of Northern Ramsey County in MN and in St. Croix County, WI. There were also reports of light icing on the roadways. High icing accretion occurred farther east into Wisconsin.
Using Mn511.org traffic cameras and road condition reports, a few spin outs occurred along the I-94 corridor due to freezing drizzle that occurred in the early morning in between Albertville, MN and northwest towards Clearwater, MN.
Using Mn511.org traffic cameras and road condition reports, a few spin outs occurred along the I-94 corridor due to freezing drizzle that occurred in the early morning in between Brooklyn Park, MN and northwest towards Rogers, MN.
Using Mn511.org traffic cameras and road condition reports, a few spin outs occurred between along the I-35 corridor due to freezing drizzle that occurred in the early morning in northern Ramsey County.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 2023Every state in 2023This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, February 2023
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: 1081684, 1081685, 1081686, 1081835, 1081836, 1081837, 1081838, 1081839.