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Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, August 2014
15 mesoscale discussions in August 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 August 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 15
- Busiest day
- August 21, 20143 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 4, 2:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan, Buena Vista and 36 more | 84 min |
| Aug 18, 2:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clay and 17 more | 93 min |
| Aug 18, 6:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan and 39 more | 86 min |
| Aug 18, 9:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cerro Gordo and 10 more | 56 min |
| Aug 20, 2:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Clarke and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 20, 9:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux | 2 hr |
| Aug 21, 3:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dickinson, Emmet, Osceola | 92 min |
| Aug 21, 9:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan and 31 more | 86 min |
| Aug 24, 11:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo and 14 more | 94 min |
| Aug 28, 1:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry and 13 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 7:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lyon, Sioux | 86 min |
| Aug 29, 1:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Taylor | 2 hr |
| Aug 29, 3:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cedar and 29 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 31, 2:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cerro Gordo and 30 more | 85 min |
| Aug 31, 6:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 28 more | 83 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bremer County7
- Butler County7
- Cerro Gordo County7
- Chickasaw County7
- Floyd County7
- Humboldt County7
- Wright County7
- Franklin County6
- Greene County6
- Hancock County6
- Mitchell County6
- Webster County6
- Worth County6
- Winneshiek County6
- Black Hawk County5
- Boone County5
- Buchanan County5
- Calhoun County5
- Carroll County5
- Dickinson County5
- Emmet County5
- Hamilton County5
- Hardin County5
- Ida County5
- Sac County5
- Winnebago County5
- Allamakee County5
- Clayton County5
- Fayette County5
- Howard County5
- Benton County4
- Buena Vista County4
- Clay County4
- Grundy County4
- Kossuth County4
- Lyon County4
- Marshall County4
- O'Brien County4
- Osceola County4
- Palo Alto County4
58 more counties
- Plymouth County4
- Pocahontas County4
- Sioux County4
- Tama County4
- Delaware County4
- Mills County4
- Montgomery County4
- Cherokee County3
- Story County3
- Dubuque County3
- Audubon County3
- Cass County3
- Clarke County3
- Crawford County3
- Harrison County3
- Monona County3
- Pottawattamie County3
- Ringgold County3
- Shelby County3
- Fremont County3
- Jasper County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Decatur County2
- Guthrie County2
- Madison County2
- Union County2
- Woodbury County2
- Cedar County2
- Johnson County2
- Jones County2
- Linn County2
- Davis County2
- Des Moines County2
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
- Keokuk County2
- Lee County2
- Louisa County2
- Mahaska County2
- Monroe County2
- Muscatine County2
- Van Buren County2
- Wapello County2
- Washington County2
- Page County2
- Taylor County2
- Clinton County1
- Jackson County1
- Scott County1
- Appanoose County1
- Lucas County1
- Wayne County1
- Iowa County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Dallas County1
- Polk County1
- Warren 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.