Alert archive / Minnesota / Red Flag Warnings / 2012
Red Flag Warnings in Minnesota, October 2012
17 red flag warnings in October 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 October 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 17
- Busiest day
- October 1, 20125 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 3:35 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 15 hr |
| Oct 1, 3:41 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Faribault, Kandiyohi and 15 more | 15 hr |
| Oct 1, 3:55 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 15 hr |
| Oct 1, 4:15 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 15 hr | |
| Oct 1, 6:58 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Benton, Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 12 more | 24 hr |
| Oct 1, 7:05 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 24 hr |
| Oct 1, 7:13 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 24 hr |
| Oct 2, 3:35 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Koochiching | 15 hr |
| Oct 2, 4:21 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 15 hr | |
| Oct 3, 3:41 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 15 hr | |
| Oct 3, 4:26 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Brown, Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Martin, Redwood and 4 more | 15 hr |
| Oct 8, 3:14 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 16 hr | |
| Oct 8, 3:34 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Faribault, Freeborn and 16 more | 15 hr |
| Oct 8, 3:48 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ARX | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 15 hr |
| Oct 12, 2:49 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Martin and 7 more | 17 hr |
| Oct 12, 3:13 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 16 hr | |
| Oct 12, 4:24 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 15 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brown County5
- Martin County5
- Redwood County5
- Renville County5
- Watonwan County5
- Chippewa County4
- Kandiyohi County4
- Lac qui Parle County4
- Swift County4
- Yellow Medicine County4
- Big Stone County3
- Traverse County3
- Douglas County3
- Pope County3
- Stevens County3
- Blue Earth County2
- Faribault County2
- McLeod County2
- Meeker County2
- Nicollet County2
- Sibley County2
- Stearns County2
- Todd County2
- Becker County2
- Beltrami County2
- Clay County2
- Clearwater County2
- Grant County2
- Hubbard County2
- Kittson County2
- Lake of the Woods County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Marshall County2
- Norman County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Pennington County2
- Polk County2
- Red Lake County2
- Roseau County2
- Wadena County2
26 more counties
- Wilkin County2
- Benton County1
- Morrison County1
- Cass County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Itasca County1
- Koochiching County1
- Carver County1
- Dakota County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Ramsey County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca County1
- Washington County1
- Dodge County1
- Fillmore County1
- Houston County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted County1
- Wabasha County1
- Winona County1
Nearby
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.