Alert archive / Minnesota / Red Flag Warnings / 2012
Red Flag Warnings in Minnesota, April 2012
18 red flag warnings in April 2012. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of red flag warnings reaches back to 2005.
Red Flag Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 18
- Busiest day
- April 8, 20126 red flag warnings
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 6, 4:26 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 15 hr | |
| Apr 6, 4:37 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 6, 4:37 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Martin and 7 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 6, 5:00 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 15 hr |
| Apr 7, 3:23 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 16 hr | |
| Apr 7, 3:32 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Wilkin | 16 hr |
| Apr 7, 3:35 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 16 hr |
| Apr 7, 3:38 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Martin and 7 more | 16 hr |
| Apr 8, 2:47 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Grant, Hubbard, Otter Tail, Wadena and 1 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:07 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 17 hr | |
| Apr 8, 3:50 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 16 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:57 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 16 hr |
| Apr 8, 4:16 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Pine | 16 hr |
| Apr 8, 4:23 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 16 hr |
| Apr 9, 3:31 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 16 hr |
| Apr 9, 3:36 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 16 hr | |
| Apr 9, 3:38 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted | 16 hr |
| Apr 9, 4:00 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Faribault, Freeborn, Lac qui Parle and 8 more | 16 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brown County4
- Chippewa County4
- Lac qui Parle County4
- Martin County4
- Redwood County4
- Renville County4
- Watonwan County4
- Yellow Medicine County4
- Big Stone County4
- Traverse County4
- Becker County3
- Clay County3
- Grant County3
- Otter Tail County3
- Wilkin County3
- Douglas County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- Pope County3
- Stevens County3
- Swift County3
- Hubbard County2
- Wadena County2
- Dodge County2
- Fillmore County2
- Mower County2
- Olmsted County2
- Blue Earth County2
- Faribault County2
- Freeborn County2
- Nicollet County2
- Steele County2
- Waseca County2
- Beltrami County1
- Clearwater County1
- Kittson County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Marshall County1
- Norman County1
- Pennington County1
33 more counties
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Houston County1
- Wabasha County1
- Winona County1
- Aitkin County1
- Cass County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Pine County1
- Anoka County1
- Benton County1
- Carver County1
- Chisago County1
- Dakota County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- Kanabec County1
- Le Sueur County1
- McLeod County1
- Meeker County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Ramsey County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Sibley County1
- Stearns County1
- Todd County1
- Washington County1
- Wright 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.