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Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, February 2014
8 mesoscale discussions in February 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 February 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 8
- Busiest day
- February 20, 20144 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, 11:38 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Fremont, Henry and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:26 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Des Moines, Lee, Van Buren | 4 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:29 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Hancock, Kossuth, Palo Alto and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 17, 11:30 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clinton, Jackson, Scott | 5 hr |
| Feb 20, 4:24 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Ringgold | 2 hr |
| Feb 20, 5:28 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Harrison, Lyon, Monona, O'Brien, Osceola and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 20, 10:20 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clarke, Clinton and 31 more | 85 min |
| Feb 20, 11:20 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buena Vista and 39 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Decatur County3
- Des Moines County3
- Lee County3
- Ringgold County3
- Van Buren County3
- Appanoose County2
- Davis County2
- Henry County2
- Wayne County2
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Emmet County2
- Hancock County2
- Kossuth County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Clinton County2
- Jackson County2
- Scott County2
- Jasper County2
- Warren County2
- Fremont County1
- Page County1
- Taylor County1
- Cherokee County1
- Harrison County1
- Lyon County1
- Monona County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury County1
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Cedar County1
- Clarke County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque County1
52 more counties
- Iowa County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Jones County1
- Keokuk County1
- Linn County1
- Louisa County1
- Lucas County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Muscatine County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Tama County1
- Union County1
- Wapello County1
- Washington County1
- Adair County1
- Audubon County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Bremer County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Crawford County1
- Dallas County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin County1
- Howard County1
- Humboldt County1
- Ida County1
- Madison County1
- Marshall County1
- Mitchell County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Polk County1
- Sac County1
- Shelby County1
- Story County1
- Webster County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Wright 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.