Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, May 2016
39 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 39
- Busiest day
- May 26, 201615 severe thunderstorm 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 22, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Marshall, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 52 min |
| May 23, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Renville | 28 min |
| May 23, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker, Wright | 27 min |
| May 23, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Nobles | 39 min |
| May 23, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Wright | 22 min |
| May 24, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 23 min |
| May 24, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi | 26 min |
| May 24, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Renville | 42 min |
| May 24, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod | 34 min |
| May 24, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, McLeod, Sibley | 50 min |
| May 24, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Benton, Morrison | 42 min |
| May 24, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Todd | 47 min |
| May 24, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott, Sibley | 32 min |
| May 24, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Scott, Sibley | 45 min |
| May 24, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Crow Wing | 38 min |
| May 24, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cook, Lake | 36 min |
| May 25, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet, Renville, Sibley | 47 min |
| May 25, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Douglas, Pope, Stearns, Todd | 44 min |
| May 25, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison, Todd | 61 min |
| May 25, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Morrison | 45 min |
| May 25, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Wilkin | 64 min |
| May 25, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin | 55 min |
| May 25, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Martin | 55 min |
| May 25, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Faribault, Martin | 38 min |
| May 25, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown, Nicollet | 54 min |
| May 25, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Jackson, Nobles | 48 min |
| May 26, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Nicollet | 45 min |
| May 26, 12:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Brown | 27 min |
| May 26, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard | 55 min |
| May 26, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Martin, Watonwan | 40 min |
| May 26, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Le Sueur, Nicollet | 44 min |
| May 26, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Nicollet | 24 min |
| May 26, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fillmore, Mower, Olmsted | 46 min |
| May 26, 4:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Fillmore | 44 min |
| May 30, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 28 min |
| May 30, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 31 min |
| May 30, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 35 min |
| May 30, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 44 min |
| May 31, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Crow Wing | 25 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Polk County5
- Nicollet County5
- Sibley County4
- Martin County4
- Blue Earth County4
- Kandiyohi County3
- Renville County3
- McLeod County3
- Carver County3
- Morrison County3
- Todd County3
- Wright County2
- Nobles County2
- Scott County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Faribault County2
- Brown County2
- Fillmore County2
- Marshall County1
- Pennington County1
- Red Lake County1
- Meeker County1
- Benton County1
- Cass County1
- Cook County1
- Lake County1
- Douglas County1
- Pope County1
- Stearns County1
- Wilkin County1
- Jackson County1
- Beltrami County1
- Clearwater County1
- Hubbard County1
- Watonwan County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted 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.