Alert archive / Minnesota / Red Flag Warnings
Red Flag Warnings in Minnesota, 2017
16 red flag warnings in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 16
- Busiest month
- November7 red flag warnings
- Busiest day
- April 16, 20174 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 16, 2:52 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Benton, Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 10 more | 17 hr |
| Apr 16, 3:11 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Lyon | 17 hr |
| Apr 16, 3:49 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Grant, Otter Tail, Wadena, Wilkin | 16 hr |
| Apr 16, 3:51 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 16 hr |
| May 5, 4:55 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Koochiching, Saint Louis | 14 hr |
| May 5, 4:59 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson and 9 more | 14 hr |
| Oct 18, 3:41 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson and 8 more | 15 hr |
| Oct 18, 4:17 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Itasca, Koochiching, Saint Louis | 15 hr |
| Oct 19, 5:38 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Douglas, Faribault, Kandiyohi and 16 more | 13 hr |
| Nov 28, 12:39 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 34 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 28, 1:18 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 4 hr |
| Nov 28, 1:24 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 29, 3:00 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 14 hr |
| Nov 29, 3:04 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone | 14 hr |
| Nov 29, 3:51 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Redwood, Renville, Stevens, Swift and 1 more | 13 hr |
| Nov 29, 10:03 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Clay, Grant, Norman, Otter Tail, Wilkin | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chippewa County4
- Lac qui Parle County4
- Redwood County4
- Renville County4
- Stevens County4
- Swift County4
- Yellow Medicine County4
- Brown County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- Meeker County3
- Morrison County3
- Pope County3
- Stearns County3
- Lincoln County3
- Lyon County3
- Big Stone County3
- Traverse County3
- Clay County3
- Norman County3
- Benton County2
- Douglas County2
- Todd County2
- Grant County2
- Otter Tail County2
- Wadena County2
- Wilkin County2
- Aitkin County2
- Cass County2
- Itasca County2
- Koochiching County2
- Saint Louis County2
- Becker County2
- Beltrami County2
- Clearwater County2
- Hubbard County2
- Kittson County2
- Lake of the Woods County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Marshall County2
- Pennington County2
37 more counties
- Polk County2
- Red Lake County2
- Roseau County2
- Blue Earth County2
- Faribault County2
- McLeod County2
- Martin County2
- Nicollet County2
- Sibley County2
- Watonwan County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Murray County2
- Pipestone County2
- Crow Wing County1
- Carlton County1
- Anoka County1
- Carver County1
- Chisago County1
- Dakota County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- Kanabec County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Ramsey County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca County1
- Washington County1
- Wright County1
- Jackson County1
- Nobles County1
- Rock 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.