Alert archive / Minnesota / Red Flag Warnings / 2016
Red Flag Warnings in Minnesota, May 2016
16 red flag warnings in May 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 May 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 16
- Busiest day
- May 3, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- Becker County4
- Kittson County4
- Norman County4
- Wadena County4
- Crow Wing County4
- Lake of the Woods County4
- Carlton County4
- Koochiching County4
- Clay County3
- Grant County3
- Otter Tail County3
- Wilkin County3
- Todd County3
- Pine County3
- Douglas County2
- Benton County2
- Chisago County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Morrison County2
- Anoka County1
- Chippewa County1
- Hennepin County1
- Kandiyohi 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.