Alert archive / Iowa / Mesoscale Discussions / 2008
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, August 2008
14 mesoscale discussions in August 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 August 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 14
- Busiest day
- August 3, 20083 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 10:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harrison, Monona, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 62 min |
| Aug 2, 11:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cerro Gordo and 20 more | 92 min |
| Aug 3, 2:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bremer, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 8:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buena Vista, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 3:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque and 4 more | 84 min |
| Aug 4, 6:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Scott | 90 min |
| Aug 5, 1:53 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa and 15 more | 97 min |
| Aug 5, 7:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Keokuk, Louisa, Washington | 53 min |
| Aug 13, 4:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth and 2 more | 53 min |
| Aug 22, 4:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 4:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 37 more | 95 min |
| Aug 27, 4:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Kossuth, Lyon and 6 more | 117 min |
| Aug 27, 10:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buena Vista and 44 more | 119 min |
| Aug 28, 2:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee and 7 more | 87 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Plymouth County6
- Kossuth County6
- O'Brien County6
- Sioux County5
- Emmet County5
- Hancock County5
- Winnebago County5
- Clay County5
- Dickinson County5
- Palo Alto County5
- Cherokee County5
- Woodbury County4
- Cerro Gordo County4
- Howard County4
- Mitchell County4
- Worth County4
- Humboldt County4
- Osceola County4
- Harrison County3
- Monona County3
- Bremer County3
- Chickasaw County3
- Floyd County3
- Franklin County3
- Hamilton County3
- Hardin County3
- Linn County3
- Winneshiek County3
- Wright County3
- Lyon County3
- Buena Vista County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Scott County3
- Louisa County3
- Washington County3
- Audubon County3
- Carroll County3
- Shelby County3
- Benton County2
- Black Hawk County2
53 more counties
- Buchanan County2
- Butler County2
- Delaware County2
- Fayette County2
- Grundy County2
- Marshall County2
- Tama County2
- Cedar County2
- Clinton County2
- Jackson County2
- Jones County2
- Appanoose County2
- Des Moines County2
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
- Keokuk County2
- Monroe County2
- Muscatine County2
- Wapello County2
- Cass County2
- Fremont County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Boone County2
- Calhoun County2
- Crawford County2
- Dallas County2
- Greene County2
- Guthrie County2
- Ida County2
- Polk County2
- Sac County2
- Story County2
- Webster County2
- Dubuque County1
- Iowa County1
- Johnson County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Madison County1
- Page County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Allamakee County1
- Jasper County1
- Davis County1
- Lee County1
- Van Buren County1
- Wayne 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.