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Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, April 2014
17 mesoscale discussions in April 2014. 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 April 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 17
- Busiest day
- April 13, 20146 mesoscale discussions
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 1:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Davis and 25 more | 55 min |
| Apr 3, 2:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa, Van Buren | 116 min |
| Apr 12, 10:24 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Winneshiek | 2 hr |
| Apr 12, 2:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 44 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 12, 4:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Cass, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page and 4 more | 59 min |
| Apr 12, 6:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 46 more | 55 min |
| Apr 12, 9:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 46 more | 67 min |
| Apr 12, 9:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Page, Ringgold, Taylor | 63 min |
| Apr 12, 11:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Buchanan, Cedar, Clarke and 35 more | 64 min |
| Apr 13, 1:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clinton, Jackson, Muscatine, Scott | 83 min |
| Apr 13, 7:41 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines and 15 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buena Vista, Carroll, Cherokee, Crawford, Harrison, Ida and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 10:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Page, Ringgold, Taylor | 113 min |
| Apr 27, 1:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 28 more | 61 min |
| Apr 27, 4:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar, Clayton and 19 more | 64 min |
| Apr 28, 12:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 33 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Cedar, Dallas, Davis, Des Moines, Greene and 18 more | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Marion County8
- Van Buren County8
- Davis County7
- Henry County7
- Jefferson County7
- Madison County7
- Ringgold County7
- Warren County7
- Carroll County7
- Iowa County7
- Jasper County7
- Polk County7
- Poweshiek County7
- Adair County6
- Des Moines County6
- Keokuk County6
- Lee County6
- Louisa County6
- Taylor County6
- Union County6
- Wapello County6
- Cedar County6
- Clinton County6
- Crawford County6
- Dallas County6
- Greene County6
- Guthrie County6
- Jackson County6
- Johnson County6
- Sac County6
- Adams County5
- Appanoose County5
- Cass County5
- Clarke County5
- Decatur County5
- Lucas County5
- Mahaska County5
- Monroe County5
- Montgomery County5
- Muscatine County5
49 more counties
- Page County5
- Washington County5
- Wayne County5
- Audubon County5
- Benton County5
- Black Hawk County5
- Boone County5
- Buchanan County5
- Calhoun County5
- Clayton County5
- Delaware County5
- Dubuque County5
- Jones County5
- Linn County5
- Marshall County5
- Shelby County5
- Story County5
- Bremer County4
- Fayette County4
- Hamilton County4
- Tama County4
- Webster County4
- Ida County4
- Scott County4
- Fremont County3
- Mills County3
- Allamakee County3
- Butler County3
- Chickasaw County3
- Floyd County3
- Franklin County3
- Grundy County3
- Hardin County3
- Humboldt County3
- Wright County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Winneshiek County2
- Monona County2
- Plymouth County2
- Woodbury County2
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Hancock County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Worth County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cherokee County1
- Harrison County1
- O'Brien County1
- Sioux 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.