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Mesoscale Discussions in California, 2008

24 mesoscale discussions in 2008. 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 mesoscale discussions reaches back to 2003.

Mesoscale Discussions by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
24
Busiest month
January17 mesoscale discussions
Busiest day
January 5, 20083 mesoscale discussions

Over time

By month

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Pacific Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 4, 3:31 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCNevada, Placer, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou3 hr
Jan 4, 10:37 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlpine, El Dorado, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Plumas and 2 more4 hr
Jan 4, 4:39 PM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlpine, Tuolumne5 hr
Jan 5, 10:46 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Mateo, Santa Cruz119 min
Jan 5, 11:37 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEl Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sierra, Tuolumne5 hr
Jan 5, 4:11 PM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlpine, Tuolumne5 hr
Jan 8, 4:19 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCShasta, Siskiyou3 hr
Jan 8, 9:37 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEl Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Tuolumne6 hr
Jan 24, 10:26 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAmador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Mariposa, Tulare, Tuolumne3 hr
Jan 24, 1:57 PM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlpine, Mariposa, Tuolumne3 hr
Jan 27, 9:39 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCVentura2 hr
Jan 27, 9:53 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCSiskiyou, Trinity6 hr
Jan 27, 12:10 PM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFresno, Kings, Merced, Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo2 hr
Jan 27, 4:06 PM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFresno, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Madera, Mariposa and 7 more54 min
Jan 27, 4:09 PM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEl Dorado, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Placer, Plumas and 3 more6 hr
Jan 27, 10:38 PM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEl Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Tuolumne6 hr
Jan 31, 9:57 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEl Dorado, Lake, Lassen, Nevada, Placer, Plumas and 4 more4 hr
Feb 2, 8:40 PM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEl Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sierra, Tulare and 1 more6 hr
Feb 23, 2:58 PM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlpine, Tuolumne6 hr
Jun 28, 12:54 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDel Norte, Humboldt, Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta and 3 more66 min
Aug 25, 11:13 AM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCSan Diego3 hr
Sep 11, 11:49 AM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCImperial116 min
Nov 25, 10:00 PM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKern, Kings, Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Luis Obispo and 2 more2 hr
Dec 15, 3:00 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAmador, El Dorado, Madera, Mariposa, Nevada, Placer and 2 more4 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 5, 20083mesoscale discussions
  2. January 27, 20083mesoscale discussions
  3. January 28, 20083mesoscale discussions
  4. January 4, 20082mesoscale discussions
  5. January 8, 20082mesoscale discussions
  6. January 24, 20082mesoscale discussions
  7. January 6, 20081mesoscale discussions
  8. January 31, 20081mesoscale discussions
  9. February 3, 20081mesoscale discussions
  10. February 23, 20081mesoscale discussions
  11. June 28, 20081mesoscale discussions
  12. August 25, 20081mesoscale discussions

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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.