Alert archive / Iowa / Mesoscale Discussions / 2003
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, August 2003
20 mesoscale discussions in August 2003. 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 August 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 20
- Busiest day
- August 1, 20034 mesoscale discussions
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 8:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar and 11 more | 116 min |
| Jul 31, 11:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 10:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Louisa, Muscatine | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 5:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa, Scott | 86 min |
| Aug 1, 7:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Lucas and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 18, 5:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dickinson, Lyon, Osceola | 118 min |
| Aug 18, 6:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll and 18 more | 86 min |
| Aug 19, 1:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan and 32 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 2:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Fremont and 10 more | 84 min |
| Aug 19, 6:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 30 more | 95 min |
| Aug 20, 2:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan and 45 more | 90 min |
| Aug 20, 6:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan and 41 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 24, 3:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Kossuth and 7 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 24, 8:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Kossuth, Lyon, Mitchell and 5 more | 119 min |
| Aug 25, 7:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Cedar, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa and 13 more | 87 min |
| Aug 25, 7:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 28 more | 67 min |
| Aug 26, 2:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry and 11 more | 116 min |
| Aug 26, 4:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Van Buren | 90 min |
| Aug 28, 3:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Des Moines, Henry and 11 more | 117 min |
| Aug 28, 5:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lee | 65 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Des Moines County8
- Henry County8
- Lee County7
- Benton County6
- Black Hawk County6
- Bremer County6
- Buchanan County6
- Linn County6
- Louisa County6
- Davis County6
- Wapello County6
- Jefferson County6
- Van Buren County6
- Cedar County5
- Fayette County5
- Iowa County5
- Johnson County5
- Winneshiek County5
- Butler County5
- Chickasaw County5
- Franklin County5
- Grundy County5
- Hamilton County5
- Hardin County5
- Marshall County5
- Story County5
- Tama County5
- Muscatine County5
- Appanoose County5
- Mitchell County5
- Allamakee County4
- Clayton County4
- Delaware County4
- Jones County4
- Boone County4
- Jasper County4
- Polk County4
- Webster County4
- Wright County4
- Scott County4
59 more counties
- Adair County4
- Adams County4
- Clarke County4
- Lucas County4
- Marion County4
- Monroe County4
- Audubon County4
- Calhoun County4
- Carroll County4
- Greene County4
- Guthrie County4
- Page County4
- Pocahontas County4
- Taylor County4
- Floyd County4
- Howard County4
- Kossuth County4
- Winnebago County4
- Worth County4
- Keokuk County4
- Washington County4
- Clinton County3
- Dubuque County3
- Madison County3
- Union County3
- Warren County3
- Dickinson County3
- Lyon County3
- Osceola County3
- Cass County3
- Fremont County3
- Mills County3
- Montgomery County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Shelby County3
- Cerro Gordo County3
- Hancock County3
- Humboldt County3
- Palo Alto County3
- Ringgold County3
- Mahaska County3
- Poweshiek County3
- Wayne County3
- Emmet County3
- Jackson County2
- Buena Vista County2
- Cherokee County2
- Crawford County2
- Harrison County2
- Ida County2
- Monona County2
- Sac County2
- Dallas County2
- Decatur County2
- Clay County2
- O'Brien County2
- Sioux County2
- Woodbury County1
- Plymouth 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.