Alert archive / Iowa / Mesoscale Discussions / 2010
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, August 2010
38 mesoscale discussions in August 2010. 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 2010. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 38
- Busiest day
- August 13, 20107 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, 4:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford, Greene and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Cass, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery and 5 more | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 12:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cedar, Crawford and 15 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 8:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lyon | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 9:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Cass, Clarke and 24 more | 58 min |
| Aug 4, 1:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Johnson, Keokuk and 7 more | 85 min |
| Aug 4, 2:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Page, Ringgold, Taylor, Wayne | 93 min |
| Aug 4, 3:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Des Moines, Muscatine, Scott | 63 min |
| Aug 7, 6:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cerro Gordo, Franklin, Hancock, Mitchell, Winnebago, Worth | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 2:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buena Vista, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson and 13 more | 86 min |
| Aug 8, 3:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 91 min |
| Aug 8, 5:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee and 28 more | 58 min |
| Aug 8, 8:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo and 32 more | 63 min |
| Aug 8, 9:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Chickasaw, Clayton and 17 more | 95 min |
| Aug 8, 10:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cedar, Crawford and 17 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 11:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allamakee, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 62 more | 86 min |
| Aug 9, 2:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 54 more | 100 min |
| Aug 9, 4:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Cedar, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines and 22 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 6:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Buena Vista, Butler and 22 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 1:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cherokee and 21 more | 58 min |
| Aug 10, 5:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Bremer, Butler, Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd and 4 more | 67 min |
| Aug 12, 2:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola and 3 more | 115 min |
| Aug 13, 12:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Howard, Mitchell, Winnebago, Winneshiek, Worth | 57 min |
| Aug 13, 2:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lyon, Sioux | 62 min |
| Aug 13, 4:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Clayton, Delaware, Dubuque, Fayette | 115 min |
| Aug 13, 9:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Butler and 42 more | 119 min |
| Aug 13, 10:36 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton and 83 more | 84 min |
| Aug 13, 12:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Bremer, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clay, Clayton and 14 more | 56 min |
| Aug 13, 1:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Jackson and 9 more | 66 min |
| Aug 13, 7:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Emmet, Fayette, Floyd, Hancock and 7 more | 53 min |
| Aug 14, 2:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Hancock and 7 more | 67 min |
| Aug 14, 6:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Hancock, Howard, Kossuth, Mitchell and 2 more | 59 min |
| Aug 16, 2:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cass, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 85 min |
| Aug 19, 3:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Howard and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 11:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Hancock and 10 more | 67 min |
| Aug 20, 5:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines and 22 more | 85 min |
| Aug 31, 1:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux | 83 min |
| Aug 31, 3:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Butler and 37 more | 34 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Winnebago County16
- Shelby County14
- Mitchell County14
- Worth County14
- Cerro Gordo County13
- Hancock County13
- Kossuth County13
- Dickinson County12
- Palo Alto County12
- Emmet County12
- Howard County12
- Audubon County11
- Carroll County11
- Crawford County11
- Greene County11
- Cedar County11
- Lyon County11
- Buena Vista County11
- Cherokee County11
- Clay County11
- O'Brien County11
- Osceola County11
- Pocahontas County11
- Floyd County11
- Guthrie County10
- Harrison County10
- Johnson County10
- Muscatine County10
- Franklin County10
- Sioux County10
- Allamakee County10
- Chickasaw County10
- Fayette County10
- Winneshiek County10
- Ida County9
- Monona County9
- Dallas County9
- Scott County9
- Washington County9
- Calhoun County9
59 more counties
- Humboldt County9
- Wright County9
- Cass County8
- Pottawattamie County8
- Woodbury County8
- Boone County8
- Iowa County8
- Marshall County8
- Polk County8
- Poweshiek County8
- Story County8
- Plymouth County8
- Sac County8
- Webster County8
- Jasper County7
- Keokuk County7
- Louisa County7
- Hamilton County7
- Hardin County7
- Clayton County7
- Jones County7
- Butler County7
- Adams County6
- Adair County6
- Benton County6
- Tama County6
- Madison County6
- Mahaska County6
- Marion County6
- Wapello County6
- Des Moines County6
- Henry County6
- Jefferson County6
- Van Buren County6
- Dubuque County6
- Linn County6
- Bremer County6
- Montgomery County5
- Mills County5
- Page County5
- Ringgold County5
- Taylor County5
- Appanoose County5
- Decatur County5
- Lucas County5
- Monroe County5
- Wayne County5
- Buchanan County5
- Clinton County5
- Delaware County5
- Jackson County5
- Grundy County5
- Davis County5
- Fremont County4
- Clarke County4
- Warren County4
- Lee County4
- Black Hawk County4
- Union County3
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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.