Timeline

14 storm reports, 5 to 10 a.m.

Bars: warnings, from issue to end; filled when the warning covered Faribault. Dots: storm reports at the time of each (snow and rain totals at the time they were measured).

Faribault airport (KFBL)

Temperature 66° to 82°
Wind gusts to 20 mph
Pressure 29.76 to 29.94 in.

High 82° at 2:34 p.m., low 66° at 1:14 a.m. Peak gust 20 mph at 4:34 a.m. The airport reports about every 20 minutes, so a gust between its reports isn't in this record. Pressure is its altimeter setting, in inches of mercury. Over The airport's day Midnight to midnight standard time all year (1 a.m. to 1 a.m. in daylight time): the day the airport's high and low cover. This site's report card: midnight to midnight standard time.

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Rain total 14
Faribault
20 miles

Faribault airport (KFBL)

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Radar replay

Chanhassen radar (KMPX), saved during the warning

Intensity Light Moderate Heavy Severe (hail)

Storm reports

Within 20 miles of Faribault, from the National Weather Service; the numbers match the map.

Owatonna 4
Dennison 2
Elko 2
Waseca 2
Faribault 1
Kenyon 1
Nerstrand 1
Veseli 1

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Storm reports within 20 miles of Faribault, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016
No.	Time	Report	Where	From Faribault	Reported by
1	5 a.m.	Heavy rain 3.95 in. Remark CO-OP OBSERVER STATION OWATONNA (STRAIGHT R) /OWTM5/.	in Owatonna	15 miles south of Faribault	NWS co-op observer
2	5 a.m.	Heavy rain 3.02 in. Remark COCORAHS STATION VESELI 1 W /MN-RC-11/.	1 mile west-northwest of Veseli	19 miles northwest of Faribault	CoCoRaHS volunteer
3	5 a.m.	Heavy rain 2.7 in. Remark COCORAHS STATION ELKO /MN-SC-29/.	1 mile south-southwest of Elko	19 miles north of Faribault	CoCoRaHS volunteer
4	6 a.m.	Heavy rain 3.87 in. Remark COCORAHS STATION KENYON /MN-GH-2/.	in Kenyon	14 miles east of Faribault	CoCoRaHS volunteer
5	6:30 a.m.	Heavy rain 4.38 in. Remark COCORAHS STATION OWATONNA /MN-SE-2/.	1 mile northeast of Owatonna	14 miles south of Faribault	CoCoRaHS volunteer
6	7 a.m.	Heavy rain 4.63 in. Remark CO-OP OBSERVER STATION OWATONNA (STRAIGHT R) /OWTM5/.	in Owatonna	15 miles south of Faribault	NWS co-op observer
7	7 a.m.	Heavy rain 4.26 in. Remark COCORAHS STATION WASECA 1 NNE /MN-WC-5/.	1 mile north-northeast of Waseca	18 miles southwest of Faribault	CoCoRaHS volunteer
8	7 a.m.	Heavy rain 2.89 in. Remark CO-OP OBSERVER STATION FARIBAULT /FBTM5/.	1 mile north-northeast of Faribault	In Faribault	NWS co-op observer
9	7 a.m.	Heavy rain 3.46 in. Remark COCORAHS STATION NERSTRAND 4 E /MN-GH-4/.	4 miles east of Nerstrand	15 miles east of Faribault	CoCoRaHS volunteer
10	7 a.m.	Heavy rain 2.55 in. Remark COCORAHS STATION ELKO /MN-SC-21/.	1 mile east-southeast of Elko	19 miles north of Faribault	CoCoRaHS volunteer
11	8 a.m.	Heavy rain 3.03 in. Remark COCORAHS STATION DENNISON /MN-GH-15/.	in Dennison	14 miles northeast of Faribault	CoCoRaHS volunteer
12	9 a.m.	Heavy rain 4.58 in.	in Waseca	18 miles southwest of Faribault	Trained storm spotter
13	9:30 a.m.	Heavy rain 3.13 in. Remark MESONET STATION SOGN (LITTLE CANNON R) /SOGM5/.	5 miles east of Dennison	19 miles northeast of Faribault	Weather station network (mesonet)
14	10 a.m.	Heavy rain 4.64 in. Remark CO-OP OBSERVER STATION OWATONNA (STRAIGHT R) /OWTM5/.	in Owatonna	15 miles south of Faribault	NWS co-op observer

Warnings

Each opens to its details. “What happened” is this site's own check, not the National Weather Service's verification: a report of the warning's kind, at warning size, inside its outline while it was in effect.

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