Alert archive / Iowa / Mesoscale Discussions / 2005
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, March 2005
12 mesoscale discussions in March 2005. 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 March 2005. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 12
- Busiest day
- March 30, 20057 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 5:08 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont | 2 hr |
| Mar 6, 8:26 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 41 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 17, 7:57 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Dickinson, Emmet, Howard and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 18, 6:18 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Howard, Kossuth, Lyon and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 18, 11:33 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lyon | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 6:03 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 32 more | 117 min |
| Mar 30, 10:46 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan and 29 more | 119 min |
| Mar 30, 10:50 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 29 more | 85 min |
| Mar 30, 1:14 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Franklin, Hamilton and 7 more | 61 min |
| Mar 30, 1:23 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar and 25 more | 97 min |
| Mar 30, 2:00 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Franklin, Hamilton and 7 more | 30 min |
| Mar 30, 3:54 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Clayton, Clinton, Dubuque, Jackson, Winneshiek | 66 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Boone County5
- Hamilton County5
- Mitchell County5
- Winneshiek County5
- Worth County5
- Floyd County4
- Franklin County4
- Hardin County4
- Polk County4
- Story County4
- Allamakee County4
- Clayton County4
- Emmet County4
- Winnebago County4
- Wright County4
- Adair County3
- Adams County3
- Benton County3
- Black Hawk County3
- Bremer County3
- Buchanan County3
- Butler County3
- Cass County3
- Dallas County3
- Delaware County3
- Greene County3
- Guthrie County3
- Iowa County3
- Johnson County3
- Jones County3
- Keokuk County3
- Linn County3
- Mahaska County3
- Marshall County3
- Poweshiek County3
- Tama County3
- Wapello County3
- Washington County3
- Dickinson County3
- Kossuth County3
59 more counties
- Palo Alto County3
- Clinton County3
- Dubuque County3
- Jackson County3
- Cerro Gordo County3
- Appanoose County2
- Clarke County2
- Davis County2
- Madison County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Ringgold County2
- Union County2
- Warren County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Howard County2
- Clay County2
- Lyon County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Audubon County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Hancock County2
- Humboldt County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Sac County2
- Shelby County2
- Webster County2
- Cedar County2
- Des Moines County2
- Fayette County2
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lee County2
- Louisa County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Van Buren County2
- Fremont County1
- Decatur County1
- Grundy County1
- Jasper County1
- Lucas County1
- Marion County1
- Page County1
- Taylor County1
- Wayne County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Crawford County1
- Harrison County1
- Ida County1
- Mills County1
- Monona County1
- Plymouth County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury 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.