Alert archive / Iowa / Mesoscale Discussions / 2008
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, September 2008
4 mesoscale discussions in September 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 September 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 4
- Busiest day
- September 2, 20081 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 1:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 93 min |
| Sep 23, 12:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cherokee and 21 more | 119 min |
| Sep 25, 3:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Lyon, O'Brien and 3 more | 87 min |
| Sep 29, 12:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 17 more | 96 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Audubon County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Emmet County2
- Fremont County2
- Greene County2
- Guthrie County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Chickasaw County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Calhoun County1
- Crawford County1
- Hancock County1
- Harrison County1
- Humboldt County1
- Ida County1
- Kossuth County1
- Monona County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sac County1
- Shelby County1
- Webster County1
- Wright County1
- Dickinson County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Adair County1
- Adams 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.