Alert archive / Iowa / Mesoscale Discussions / 2008
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, March 2008
9 mesoscale discussions in March 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 March 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 9
- Busiest day
- March 31, 20085 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 2, 2:31 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Ringgold, Taylor | 104 min |
| Mar 2, 5:26 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Des Moines, Dubuque, Henry and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 2, 6:55 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 39 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 21, 4:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Clayton, Howard, Winneshiek | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lyon | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Clarke, Decatur, Ringgold, Taylor, Union and 1 more | 59 min |
| Mar 31, 5:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Decatur, Fremont, Montgomery and 5 more | 91 min |
| Mar 31, 9:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lyon, Osceola | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 1:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson and 5 more | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Decatur County5
- Ringgold County4
- Taylor County4
- Adams County3
- Clarke County3
- Union County3
- Wayne County3
- Davis County2
- Des Moines County2
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lee County2
- Louisa County2
- Van Buren County2
- Wapello County2
- Allamakee County2
- Fremont County2
- Howard County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Lyon County2
- Appanoose County2
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Dubuque County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Linn County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
- Washington County1
- Adair County1
- Audubon County1
- Benton County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
30 more counties
- Bremer County1
- Buchanan County1
- Butler County1
- Cass County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Dallas County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Jasper County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Mills County1
- Mitchell County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Warren County1
- Wright County1
- Clayton County1
- Osceola 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.