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Red Flag Warnings in Minnesota, 2020
20 red flag warnings in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 20
- Busiest month
- October7 red flag warnings
- Busiest day
- May 2, 20205 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 20, 3:33 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 14 hr |
| Apr 20, 3:49 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 14 hr |
| Apr 20, 3:54 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Grant | 14 hr |
| Apr 20, 4:05 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 15 hr |
| May 2, 3:08 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 16 hr |
| May 2, 4:00 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 7 more | 15 hr |
| May 2, 4:04 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 25 more | 15 hr |
| May 2, 5:06 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Pine and 1 more | 14 hr |
| May 2, 12:19 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 3:42 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Saint Louis | 15 hr |
| Oct 6, 3:20 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 16 hr |
| Oct 6, 3:22 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 16 hr |
| Oct 6, 3:26 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Lac qui Parle, Martin, Redwood and 2 more | 16 hr |
| Oct 6, 3:40 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 12 hr |
| Oct 8, 1:31 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 4 hr |
| Oct 13, 2:47 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 28 hr |
| Oct 14, 4:03 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Brown, Martin, Redwood, Watonwan, Yellow Medicine | 13 hr |
| Nov 6, 1:58 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | MPX | Brown, Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Martin, Pope and 6 more | 16 hr |
| Nov 6, 2:24 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 16 hr |
| Nov 6, 2:59 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 15 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Nobles County6
- Pipestone County6
- Rock County6
- Brown County5
- Redwood County5
- Watonwan County5
- Yellow Medicine County5
- Cottonwood County5
- Jackson County5
- Lincoln County5
- Lyon County5
- Murray County5
- Big Stone County4
- Traverse County4
- Lac qui Parle County4
- Martin County4
- Blue Earth County3
- Chippewa County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- Pope County3
- Renville County3
- Stevens County3
- Swift County3
- Anoka County2
- Benton County2
- Carver County2
- Douglas County2
- Faribault County2
- Hennepin County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- Le Sueur County2
- McLeod County2
- Meeker County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Morrison County2
- Nicollet County2
- Scott County2
- Sherburne County2
- Sibley County2
32 more counties
- Stearns County2
- Todd County2
- Wright County2
- Grant County2
- Wilkin County2
- Aitkin County2
- Carlton County2
- Cass County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Itasca County2
- Saint Louis County2
- Chisago County1
- Dakota County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Ramsey County1
- Rice County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca County1
- Washington County1
- Becker County1
- Beltrami County1
- Clay County1
- Clearwater County1
- Hubbard County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Norman County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Wadena County1
- Pine 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.