Alert archive / Minnesota / Red Flag Warnings / 2016
Red Flag Warnings in Minnesota, April 2016
8 red flag warnings in April 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 April 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 8
- Busiest day
- April 9, 20163 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Big Stone County2
- Traverse County2
- Chippewa County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Redwood County2
- Swift County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Benton County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Douglas County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Le Sueur County1
- McLeod County1
- Martin County1
- Meeker County1
- Morrison County1
- Nicollet County1
- Pope County1
- Renville County1
- Rice County1
- Sibley County1
- Stearns County1
- Steele County1
- Stevens County1
- Todd County1
- Waseca County1
- Watonwan County1
- Grant County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Wilkin 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.