Alert archive / Minnesota / Red Flag Warnings / 2018
Red Flag Warnings in Minnesota, May 2018
6 red flag warnings in May 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20184 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 4, 3:50 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 27 more | 15 hr |
| May 4, 4:04 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 15 hr |
| May 4, 4:36 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 14 hr |
| May 4, 4:56 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca and 4 more | 14 hr |
| May 15, 3:18 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Koochiching | 17 hr |
| May 15, 3:50 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more | 16 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Beltrami County2
- Clearwater County2
- Kittson County2
- Lake of the Woods County2
- Marshall County2
- Pennington County2
- Polk County2
- Red Lake County2
- Roseau County2
- Koochiching County2
- Anoka County1
- Benton County1
- Brown County1
- Carver County1
- Chippewa County1
- Chisago County1
- Dakota County1
- Douglas County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- Kanabec County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Le Sueur County1
- McLeod County1
- Meeker County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Nicollet County1
- Pope County1
- Ramsey County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Sibley County1
- Stearns County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Todd County1
23 more counties
- Washington County1
- Wright County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Becker County1
- Clay County1
- Grant County1
- Hubbard County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Norman County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Wadena County1
- Wilkin County1
- Big Stone County1
- Traverse County1
- Aitkin County1
- Carlton County1
- Cass County1
- Cook County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Itasca County1
- Lake County1
- Pine County1
- Saint Louis 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.