Alert archive / Iowa / Mesoscale Discussions / 2008
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, December 2008
11 mesoscale discussions in December 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 December 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 11
- Busiest day
- December 19, 20084 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 7:12 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Dec 8, 11:43 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Black Hawk, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Davis and 24 more | 2 hr |
| Dec 14, 5:47 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Jackson, Lee and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 18, 11:35 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Page | 6 hr |
| Dec 18, 6:37 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 18, 6:46 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 56 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 18, 11:38 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Buena Vista, Butler and 38 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 19, 12:45 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine, Scott | 4 hr |
| Dec 19, 11:21 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lyon | 4 hr |
| Dec 26, 11:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk and 6 more | 90 min |
| Dec 27, 9:41 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan and 28 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Black Hawk County5
- Buchanan County5
- Henry County5
- Louisa County5
- Muscatine County5
- Benton County4
- Delaware County4
- Dubuque County4
- Grundy County4
- Jackson County4
- Jasper County4
- Jones County4
- Linn County4
- Marshall County4
- Poweshiek County4
- Tama County4
- Cedar County4
- Davis County4
- Jefferson County4
- Keokuk County4
- Scott County4
- Wapello County4
- Washington County4
- Des Moines County4
- Lee County4
- Van Buren County4
- Bremer County3
- Chickasaw County3
- Clayton County3
- Fayette County3
- Hamilton County3
- Hardin County3
- Clinton County3
- Iowa County3
- Johnson County3
- Mahaska County3
- Marion County3
- Monroe County3
- Carroll County3
- Crawford County3
59 more counties
- Lyon County3
- Appanoose County3
- Boone County2
- Butler County2
- Franklin County2
- Story County2
- Polk County2
- Warren County2
- Fremont County2
- Page County2
- Buena Vista County2
- Calhoun County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Emmet County2
- Harrison County2
- Humboldt County2
- Ida County2
- Kossuth County2
- Monona County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Plymouth County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Sac County2
- Shelby County2
- Sioux County2
- Webster County2
- Woodbury County2
- Decatur County2
- Lucas County2
- Wayne County2
- Allamakee County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Audubon County1
- Cass County1
- Clarke County1
- Dallas County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Madison County1
- Mills County1
- Montgomery County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Ringgold County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Floyd County1
- Hancock County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Wright 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.