Alert archive / Iowa / Mesoscale Discussions / 2012
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, August 2012
10 mesoscale discussions in August 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 10
- Busiest day
- August 4, 20123 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 3, 6:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Lyon and 5 more | 86 min |
| Aug 3, 10:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Worth | 87 min |
| Aug 4, 10:26 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan and 44 more | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 1:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clayton, Clinton, Delaware and 15 more | 66 min |
| Aug 8, 12:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 17 more | 62 min |
| Aug 8, 4:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 36 more | 95 min |
| Aug 9, 5:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cedar and 23 more | 94 min |
| Aug 12, 3:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Decatur, Ringgold, Taylor, Union | 2 hr |
| Aug 15, 2:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola and 2 more | 64 min |
| Aug 16, 3:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 52 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Iowa County5
- Jefferson County5
- Benton County4
- Buchanan County4
- Cedar County4
- Clayton County4
- Clinton County4
- Delaware County4
- Des Moines County4
- Dubuque County4
- Henry County4
- Jackson County4
- Johnson County4
- Jones County4
- Keokuk County4
- Linn County4
- Louisa County4
- Muscatine County4
- Poweshiek County4
- Scott County4
- Tama County4
- Van Buren County4
- Washington County4
- Appanoose County3
- Black Hawk County3
- Boone County3
- Bremer County3
- Butler County3
- Clarke County3
- Dallas County3
- Davis County3
- Decatur County3
- Fayette County3
- Grundy County3
- Jasper County3
- Lee County3
- Lucas County3
- Madison County3
- Mahaska County3
- Marion County3
52 more counties
- Marshall County3
- Monroe County3
- Polk County3
- Story County3
- Wapello County3
- Warren County3
- Adair County3
- Adams County3
- Greene County3
- Guthrie County3
- Ringgold County3
- Taylor County3
- Union County3
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Emmet County2
- Lyon County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Plymouth County2
- Sioux County2
- Franklin County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Wayne County2
- Audubon County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Crawford County2
- Fremont County2
- Harrison County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Shelby County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Worth County1
- Ida County1
- Monona County1
- Sac County1
- Woodbury County1
- Allamakee County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Webster County1
- Winneshiek 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.