Alert archive / Minnesota / 1986
Weather alerts in Minnesota, April 1986
24 weather alerts in April 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 24
- Warnings
- 24
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- April 27, 198613 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 3:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Murray | 69 min |
| Apr 25, 3:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 30 min |
| Apr 25, 3:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota | 30 min |
| Apr 25, 3:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Pope, Swift | 50 min |
| Apr 25, 4:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 60 min |
| Apr 25, 4:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 21 min |
| Apr 25, 4:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Houston, Winona | 40 min |
| Apr 25, 4:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Stearns | 60 min |
| Apr 25, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Meeker | 30 min |
| Apr 25, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 6:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FSD | Nobles | 37 min |
| Apr 26, 6:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FSD | Rock | 37 min |
| Apr 26, 6:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FSD | Nobles, Rock | 29 min |
| Apr 26, 6:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FSD | Nobles, Rock | 35 min |
| Apr 26, 7:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Jackson, Nobles | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 7:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Murray | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 8:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn, Steele, Waseca | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 10:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Scott | 52 min |
| Apr 26, 10:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Ramsey | 52 min |
| Apr 26, 10:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka | 41 min |
| Apr 26, 10:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Washington | 42 min |
| Apr 26, 11:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Olmsted, Wabasha | 60 min |
| Apr 26, 11:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Mower | 60 min |
| Apr 27, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne | 33 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 19 |
| Tornado Warning | 5 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Nobles County4
- Rock County3
- Murray County2
- Washington County2
- Dakota County2
- Cottonwood County1
- Pope County1
- Swift County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Renville County1
- Houston County1
- Winona County1
- Stearns County1
- Meeker County1
- Todd County1
- Jackson County1
- Freeborn County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca County1
- Hennepin County1
- Scott County1
- Ramsey County1
- Anoka County1
- Olmsted County1
- Wabasha County1
- Mower County1
- Benton County1
- Sherburne County1
Nearby
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.