Alert archive / Iowa / Mesoscale Discussions / 2012
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, February 2012
5 mesoscale discussions in February 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 February 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 5
- Busiest day
- February 28, 20122 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 3:27 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cass, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 4 hr |
| Feb 23, 8:45 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 51 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 28, 6:18 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 28, 11:43 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lyon, Osceola | 5 hr |
| Feb 28, 8:23 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 37 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Montgomery County3
- Page County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Cass County2
- Fremont County2
- Mills County2
- Lyon County2
- Osceola County2
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Appanoose County1
- Audubon County1
- Benton County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Buchanan County1
- Cedar County1
- Clarke County1
- Clayton County1
- Clinton County1
- Dallas County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Delaware County1
- Des Moines County1
- Dubuque County1
- Fayette County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hardin County1
- Henry County1
- Iowa County1
- Jackson County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Linn County1
29 more counties
- Louisa County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Muscatine County1
- Polk County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Ringgold County1
- Scott County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Van Buren County1
- Wapello County1
- Warren County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- O'Brien County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Harrison County1
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20112013
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.