Alert archive / Minnesota / Red Flag Warnings
Red Flag Warnings in Minnesota, 2016
24 red flag warnings in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 24
- Busiest month
- May16 red flag warnings
- Busiest day
- April 9, 20163 red flag warnings
Over time
By month
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 9, 11:46 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 7 hr | |
| Apr 9, 11:51 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 7 hr |
| Apr 9, 12:00 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Redwood, Swift, Yellow Medicine | 7 hr |
| Apr 12, 4:36 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 14 hr | |
| Apr 14, 3:43 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Faribault and 22 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:44 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Grant, Otter Tail, Wilkin | 15 hr |
| Apr 14, 4:17 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 15 hr |
| Apr 15, 10:30 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 9 hr | |
| May 3, 5:41 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 11 more | 14 hr |
| May 3, 5:46 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Douglas, Todd | 14 hr |
| May 3, 5:52 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca | 14 hr |
| May 5, 12:22 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 9 hr |
| May 5, 3:56 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more | 27 hr |
| May 6, 3:33 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Chippewa, Chisago, Douglas, Hennepin and 15 more | 15 hr |
| May 6, 3:42 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 15 hr |
| May 7, 3:37 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Benton, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison and 1 more | 15 hr |
| May 7, 4:01 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more | 15 hr |
| May 7, 4:27 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen and 6 more | 15 hr |
| May 9, 4:21 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson, Mahnomen, Marshall and 5 more | 14 hr |
| May 9, 4:37 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Pine | 13 hr |
| May 10, 4:43 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Cook, Lake, Saint Louis | 13 hr |
| May 21, 10:16 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake and 1 more | 10 hr |
| May 22, 3:32 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching and 2 more | 15 hr |
| May 22, 6:21 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods | 13 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Beltrami County6
- Hubbard County6
- Aitkin County6
- Itasca County6
- Clearwater County5
- Mahnomen County5
- Marshall County5
- Pennington County5
- Polk County5
- Red Lake County5
- Roseau County5
- Cass County5
- Cook County5
- Lake County5
- Saint Louis County5
- Todd County4
- Grant County4
- Otter Tail County4
- Wilkin County4
- Becker County4
- Kittson County4
- Norman County4
- Wadena County4
- Crow Wing County4
- Lake of the Woods County4
- Carlton County4
- Koochiching County4
- Chippewa County3
- Swift County3
- Benton County3
- Douglas County3
- Morrison County3
- Clay County3
- Pine County3
- Big Stone County2
- Traverse County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Redwood County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Kandiyohi County2
28 more counties
- Meeker County2
- Pope County2
- Stearns County2
- Stevens County2
- Chisago County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Le Sueur County1
- McLeod County1
- Martin County1
- Nicollet County1
- Renville County1
- Rice County1
- Sibley County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca County1
- Watonwan County1
- Anoka County1
- Hennepin County1
- Ramsey County1
- Sherburne County1
- Washington County1
- Wright County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.