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Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, April 2016
8 mesoscale discussions in April 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 8
- Busiest day
- April 24, 20162 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 6:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Page | 2 hr |
| Apr 21, 1:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clinton, Jackson, Jones, Scott | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 1:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Buena Vista, Carroll, Cass, Cherokee, Clay and 18 more | 119 min |
| Apr 24, 6:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Emmet and 15 more | 65 min |
| Apr 24, 8:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 14 more | 60 min |
| Apr 26, 6:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Page | 61 min |
| Apr 27, 1:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Davis and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 27, 5:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Davis and 12 more | 116 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fremont County6
- Page County5
- Mills County5
- Cass County4
- Pottawattamie County4
- Buena Vista County3
- Clay County3
- Crawford County3
- Harrison County3
- Ida County3
- Montgomery County3
- Sac County3
- Shelby County3
- Adams County3
- Taylor County3
- Audubon County2
- Carroll County2
- Cherokee County2
- Dickinson County2
- Lyon County2
- Monona County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Plymouth County2
- Sioux County2
- Woodbury County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Adair County2
- Appanoose County2
- Clarke County2
- Davis County2
- Decatur County2
- Lucas County2
- Madison County2
- Monroe County2
- Ringgold County2
- Union County2
- Wayne County2
- Clinton 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.