Alert archive / Minnesota / 2006
Weather alerts in Minnesota, April 2006
41 weather alerts in April 2006, 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 2006. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 41
- Warnings
- 24
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 7
- Busiest day
- April 6, 200612 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 2, 12:55 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DLH | Carlton, Cook, Lake, Saint Louis | 14 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:30 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 12 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:51 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 1 more | 13 hr |
| Apr 6, 4:02 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 30 hr |
| Apr 6, 2:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, Pipestone, Stevens and 2 more | 118 min |
| Apr 6, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville | 34 min |
| Apr 6, 3:33 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | FGF | Becker, Clay, Grant, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:56 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Apr 6, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle | 44 min |
| Apr 6, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 40 min |
| Apr 6, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 64 min |
| Apr 6, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Scott, Sibley | 23 min |
| Apr 6, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver | 59 min |
| Apr 6, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey | 62 min |
| Apr 6, 6:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Hennepin, Ramsey | 113 min |
| Apr 6, 7:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Dakota, Washington | 3 hr |
| Apr 6, 9:48 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Faribault, Freeborn and 15 more | 14 hr |
| Apr 6, 9:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson, Nobles, Rock | 114 min |
| Apr 7, 4:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Jackson, Nobles | 2 hr |
| Apr 7, 5:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Faribault, Freeborn, Martin | 4 hr |
| Apr 7, 5:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Rock | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 6:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Jackson, Nobles | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 7:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Steele, Waseca | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 4:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 13, 7:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 3 more | 92 min |
| Apr 13, 8:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chisago, Washington | 84 min |
| Apr 15, 5:11 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 14 hr | |
| Apr 15, 5:53 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Faribault, Lac qui Parle, Martin and 6 more | 13 hr |
| Apr 15, 10:57 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 7 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:13 PM CDT | Flood Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 6 hr |
| Apr 18, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 61 min |
| Apr 18, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Waseca | 65 min |
| Apr 18, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Renville | 38 min |
| Apr 18, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sibley | 28 min |
| Apr 18, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas | 34 min |
| Apr 18, 6:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chisago, Crow Wing, Dakota and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 25, 3:05 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs and 4 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 26, 6:07 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs and 4 more | 12 hr |
| Apr 26, 11:25 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Pine, Saint Louis | 7 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:54 AM CDT | Flood Watch | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 60 hr |
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 | 12 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 6 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 7 |
| Flood Watch | 2 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 6 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 5 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jackson County7
- Nobles County7
- Dodge County5
- Pipestone County5
- Renville County5
- Rock County5
- Ramsey County5
- Washington County5
- Steele County5
- Fillmore County4
- Houston County4
- Mower County4
- Olmsted County4
- Wabasha County4
- Winona County4
- Cottonwood County4
- Lincoln County4
- Lyon County4
- Murray County4
- Lac qui Parle County4
- Sibley County4
- Dakota County4
- Blue Earth County4
- Chisago County4
- Yellow Medicine County3
- McLeod County3
- Chippewa County3
- Carver County3
- Hennepin County3
- Faribault County3
- Freeborn County3
- Le Sueur County3
- Martin County3
- Nicollet County3
- Waseca County3
- Goodhue County3
- Anoka County3
- Benton County3
- Isanti County3
- Kanabec County3
44 more counties
- Mille Lacs County3
- Morrison County3
- Sherburne County3
- Carlton County2
- Saint Louis County2
- Big Stone County2
- Traverse County2
- Stevens County2
- Becker County2
- Clay County2
- Grant County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Norman County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Polk County2
- Red Lake County2
- Wilkin County2
- Scott County2
- Brown County2
- Douglas County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Redwood County2
- Watonwan County2
- Rice County2
- Wadena County2
- Meeker County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Cook County1
- Lake County1
- Kittson County1
- Marshall County1
- Pennington County1
- Roseau County1
- Pope County1
- Swift County1
- Beltrami County1
- Clearwater County1
- Hubbard County1
- Stearns County1
- Todd County1
- Wright County1
- Aitkin County1
- Cass County1
- Pine County1
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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.