Alert archive / Iowa / Mesoscale Discussions / 2012
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, March 2012
13 mesoscale discussions in March 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 March 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 13
- Busiest day
- March 30, 20124 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 11:06 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque and 15 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 1:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 30 more | 116 min |
| Mar 19, 3:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Boone, Clarke, Dallas, Davis, Decatur and 13 more | 95 min |
| Mar 19, 6:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cerro Gordo and 11 more | 62 min |
| Mar 23, 1:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Des Moines, Lee | 2 hr |
| Mar 27, 3:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Cedar, Clayton, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 27, 8:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Des Moines, Lee | 2 hr |
| Mar 28, 11:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Cass, Decatur, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery and 6 more | 84 min |
| Mar 29, 6:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 62 min |
| Mar 29, 7:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Dallas and 12 more | 65 min |
| Mar 29, 9:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 54 min |
| Mar 29, 11:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Decatur, Lucas, Madison, Mahaska and 6 more | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 3:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Audubon, Cass, Crawford, Fremont, Harrison and 7 more | 85 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Union County5
- Des Moines County4
- Lee County4
- Adams County4
- Cass County4
- Madison County4
- Decatur County4
- Wayne County4
- Fremont County4
- Mills County4
- Montgomery County4
- Page County4
- Linn County3
- Wapello County3
- Dallas County3
- Appanoose County3
- Clarke County3
- Lucas County3
- Mahaska County3
- Marion County3
- Monroe County3
- Warren County3
- Ringgold County3
- Cedar County2
- Clinton County2
- Davis County2
- Delaware County2
- Dubuque County2
- Henry County2
- Iowa County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Jones County2
- Keokuk County2
- Louisa County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Van Buren County2
- Washington County2
55 more counties
- Adair County2
- Audubon County2
- Boone County2
- Crawford County2
- Guthrie County2
- Shelby County2
- Webster County2
- Woodbury County2
- Polk County2
- Benton County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Taylor County2
- Buena Vista County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Emmet County1
- Greene County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Humboldt County1
- Ida County1
- Kossuth County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Plymouth County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sac County1
- Sioux County1
- Winnebago County1
- Wright County1
- Jasper County1
- Story County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Bremer County1
- Buchanan County1
- Butler County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Grundy County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Tama County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Worth County1
- Clayton County1
- Harrison County1
- Monona 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.