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Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, December 2015
7 mesoscale discussions in December 2015. 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 December 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 7
- Busiest day
- December 28, 20154 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 5:42 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Page | 2 hr |
| Dec 23, 12:42 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Dec 23, 3:24 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Des Moines, Henry and 13 more | 96 min |
| Dec 28, 3:35 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 28, 5:26 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clinton, Louisa, Muscatine, Scott | 4 hr |
| Dec 28, 12:13 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 28, 3:42 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Boone, Butler, Calhoun and 32 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Davis County3
- Jefferson County3
- Keokuk County3
- Louisa County3
- Muscatine County3
- Wapello County3
- Washington County3
- Appanoose County3
- Clinton County3
- Mahaska County3
- Monroe County3
- Scott County3
- Page County2
- Des Moines County2
- Henry County2
- Lee County2
- Van Buren County2
- Cedar County2
- Iowa County2
- Johnson County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Benton County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Boone County2
- Buchanan County2
- Clarke County2
- Dallas County2
- Decatur County2
- Grundy County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Jasper County2
- Linn County2
- Lucas County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Polk County2
- Poweshiek County2
31 more counties
- Ringgold County2
- Story County2
- Tama County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Fremont County1
- Allamakee County1
- Bremer County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clayton County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque County1
- Fayette County1
- Howard County1
- Jackson County1
- Jones County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hancock County1
- Humboldt County1
- Webster County1
- Worth 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.