Minnesota, 2025

Winter Weather in Minnesota, April 1 to 2, 2025

April 1 to 2, 2025 · NWS FSD · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

Two upper level waves moved across the Central and Northern Plains April 1 and 2 with multiple rounds of rain, snow, or a rain/snow mix. Initial warm advective precipitation moved across southeast South Dakota and southwest Minnesota the morning of April 1, followed by a relative lull until more substantial wrap-around precipitation blossomed April 2 as a surface low pressure system lifted from…

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
2

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 FSD wrote it up.

Two upper level waves moved across the Central and Northern Plains April 1 and 2 with multiple rounds of rain, snow, or a rain/snow mix. Initial warm advective precipitation moved across southeast South Dakota and southwest Minnesota the morning of April 1, followed by a relative lull until more substantial wrap-around precipitation blossomed April 2 as a surface low pressure system lifted from the near the Nebraska/Kansas border into south-central Minnesota and western Wisconsin. The majority of precipitation along and south of I-90 was rain, but cooler temperatures farther north allowed for some snow accumulation with the highest amounts along the Highway 14 corridor. Two-day snowfall generally ranged from 2 to 6 inches.

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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 1, 5:15 AM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 5:15 AM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes before
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The radar

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Event by event

2 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.

Winter Weather, Lincoln

When
April 1, 8:00 AM CST to April 2, 2:30 PM CST
Where
Lincoln forecast zone
Reported by
COOP Observer
Coordinates
44.413, -96.267 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Snowfall totaled 6.0 inches in Minneota.

Winter Weather, Lyon

When
April 1, 9:00 AM CST to April 2, 2:30 PM CST
Where
Lyon forecast zone
Reported by
CoCoRaHS
Coordinates
44.414, -95.839 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Snowfall totaled 4.5 inches 4.1 miles south-southwest of Milroy and 2.1 miles southeast of Balaton, and 4.4 inches at Marshall.

What these are

Winter Weather
Snow, sleet or freezing rain below warning levels that still caused disruption, damage or casualties.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1256803, 1256804.