Faribault under a blizzard warning

Bars: warnings, from issue to end; filled when the warning covered Faribault.

1. Temperature -11° to 23°
2. Wind gusts to 41 mph
3. Pressure 29.65 to 30.33 in.

High 23° at 4:54 p.m., low -11° at 3:54 a.m. Peak gust 41 mph at 6:14 p.m. Shaded: the hours under the day's warnings (3 p.m. to midnight). The airport reports about every 20 minutes, so a gust between its reports isn't in this record. Pressure is its altimeter setting, in inches of mercury. Over the airport's dayThe airport's day Midnight to midnight standard time all year (1 a.m. to 1 a.m. in daylight time): the day the airport's high and low cover. This site's report card: midnight to midnight standard time.

Readings saved when the warning ended

Within 20 miles of Faribault, from the National Weather Service; the numbers match the map.

Each opens to its details. “What happened” is this site's own check, not the National Weather Service's verification: a report of the warning's kind, at warning size, inside its outline while it was in effect.

1. Blizzard warning 3 p.m. to 12:55 a.m., Feb. 27 Included Faribault

   Issued

   3 p.m.

   In effect until

   12:55 a.m., Feb. 27

   Area

   Rice County's forecast zone

   Faribault

   Yes, inside its area.

   Text

   The full text, from the National Weather Service (Iowa Environmental Mesonet archive)

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Storm days since 2005 whose first tag is Blizzard warning, as this one's is, nearest in time of year; never within two days of this one.