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Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, August 2013
13 mesoscale discussions in August 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 13
- Busiest day
- August 6, 20134 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, 2:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine and 2 more | 66 min |
| Aug 6, 5:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 83 min |
| Aug 6, 9:26 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Cass, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 64 min |
| Aug 6, 5:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Clay and 24 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 6, 5:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Benton, Boone, Cass and 29 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 6, 9:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 69 more | 113 min |
| Aug 7, 2:41 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines and 15 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 5:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines and 15 more | 103 min |
| Aug 11, 5:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Black Hawk, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 26 more | 60 min |
| Aug 21, 12:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Emmet and 13 more | 94 min |
| Aug 21, 2:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Howard, Winneshiek | 85 min |
| Aug 30, 5:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clinton, Dubuque, Jackson | 61 min |
| Aug 31, 3:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon, Monona and 5 more | 119 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Monona County5
- Clinton County4
- Des Moines County4
- Henry County4
- Lee County4
- Louisa County4
- Muscatine County4
- Scott County4
- Washington County4
- Harrison County4
- Mills County4
- Pottawattamie County4
- Shelby County4
- Cerro Gordo County4
- Humboldt County4
- Ida County4
- Wright County4
- Appanoose County4
- Davis County4
- Decatur County4
- Jefferson County4
- Keokuk County4
- Monroe County4
- Ringgold County4
- Wapello County4
- Wayne County4
- Chickasaw County4
- Fremont County3
- Cass County3
- Montgomery County3
- Calhoun County3
- Carroll County3
- Cherokee County3
- Crawford County3
- Hancock County3
- Kossuth County3
- Palo Alto County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Sac County3
- Webster County3
59 more counties
- Woodbury County3
- Worth County3
- Hamilton County3
- Hardin County3
- Black Hawk County3
- Bremer County3
- Butler County3
- Cedar County3
- Fayette County3
- Floyd County3
- Franklin County3
- Grundy County3
- Johnson County3
- Jones County3
- Van Buren County3
- Winneshiek County3
- Audubon County2
- Page County2
- Buena Vista County2
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Emmet County2
- Lyon County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Plymouth County2
- Sioux County2
- Winnebago County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Benton County2
- Boone County2
- Clarke County2
- Dallas County2
- Guthrie County2
- Iowa County2
- Jasper County2
- Lucas County2
- Madison County2
- Mahaska County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Polk County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Story County2
- Tama County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Warren County2
- Greene County2
- Mitchell County2
- Howard County2
- Buchanan County1
- Delaware County1
- Linn County1
- Allamakee County1
- Clayton County1
- Dubuque County1
- Jackson 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.