Alert archive / Iowa / Mesoscale Discussions / 2006

Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, May 2006

24 mesoscale discussions in May 2006. 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 May 2006. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
24
Busiest day
May 3, 20064 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 2:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee, Lyon, Monona, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth and 2 more2 hr
May 2, 5:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon and 6 more89 min
May 2, 7:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFremont, Mills117 min
May 2, 7:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBuena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford and 13 more94 min
May 2, 9:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFremont, Page, Ringgold, Taylor94 min
May 3, 2:59 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCPage, Taylor2 hr
May 8, 5:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford and 11 more67 min
May 8, 7:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll and 19 more58 min
May 8, 10:59 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 44 more91 min
May 23, 5:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLyon, Plymouth, Sioux2 hr
May 23, 10:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAudubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cherokee and 24 more114 min
May 24, 1:56 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDecatur94 min
May 24, 11:27 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppanoose, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson and 11 more2 hr
May 24, 1:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllamakee, Cedar, Clayton, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 8 more83 min
May 26, 8:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFremont, Mills95 min
May 26, 11:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFremont, Mills, Page95 min
May 27, 3:30 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppanoose, Boone, Clarke, Dallas, Davis, Decatur and 19 more3 hr
May 27, 2:12 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllamakee, Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Henry and 10 more93 min
May 27, 8:04 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllamakee, Chickasaw, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek, Worth116 min
May 29, 10:37 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun and 35 more83 min
May 29, 3:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKossuth, Winnebago118 min
May 29, 6:03 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Calhoun and 19 more87 min
May 30, 1:12 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page3 hr
May 30, 11:13 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCedar, Clinton, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones, Muscatine and 1 more2 hr

By county

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

58 more counties

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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.