Alert archive / Iowa / Mesoscale Discussions / 2010
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, May 2010
11 mesoscale discussions in May 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 May 2010. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 7, 20103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Clarke, Dallas and 15 more | 90 min |
| May 4, 2:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Buena Vista, Butler and 25 more | 56 min |
| May 6, 9:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Page, Ringgold, Taylor | 34 min |
| May 6, 11:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Fremont, Page, Ringgold, Taylor | 86 min |
| May 7, 2:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry, Lee and 4 more | 59 min |
| May 12, 7:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Page | 55 min |
| May 12, 8:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry and 8 more | 90 min |
| May 12, 11:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee and 2 more | 96 min |
| May 22, 6:28 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 23 more | 92 min |
| May 23, 5:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lyon, Osceola | 64 min |
| May 25, 12:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Clayton, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson and 2 more | 91 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ringgold County5
- Decatur County4
- Page County4
- Taylor County4
- Wayne County4
- Fremont County3
- Mills County3
- Appanoose County3
- Davis County3
- Des Moines County3
- Henry County3
- Lee County3
- Van Buren County3
- Adair County2
- Audubon County2
- Cass County2
- Clarke County2
- Guthrie County2
- Lucas County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Allamakee County2
- Buena Vista County2
- Calhoun County2
- Clayton County2
- Crawford County2
- Ida County2
- Monona County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Sac County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lyon County2
- Osceola County2
- Adams County1
- Dallas County1
- Madison County1
- Polk County1
- Union County1
- Warren County1
- Black Hawk County1
42 more counties
- Bremer County1
- Buchanan County1
- Butler County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Howard County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Mitchell County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Monroe County1
- Wapello County1
- Carroll County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Emmet County1
- Greene County1
- Harrison County1
- O'Brien County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Plymouth County1
- Shelby County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury County1
- Clinton County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque County1
- Jackson County1
- Jones County1
- Scott 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.