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Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, August 2016
20 mesoscale discussions in August 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 August 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 20
- Busiest day
- August 4, 20164 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, 3:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dickinson, Osceola | 62 min |
| Aug 4, 12:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 4:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Cass, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 4:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cerro Gordo and 15 more | 87 min |
| Aug 4, 7:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 16 more | 88 min |
| Aug 4, 8:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Scott | 64 min |
| Aug 10, 3:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Clay, Dallas and 16 more | 113 min |
| Aug 11, 12:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee and 23 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 11, 3:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 31 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 11, 6:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 54 more | 58 min |
| Aug 11, 9:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Boone and 47 more | 53 min |
| Aug 16, 3:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Hancock, Kossuth, Lyon and 5 more | 116 min |
| Aug 16, 7:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harrison, Monona, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 58 min |
| Aug 18, 2:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mitchell, Worth | 89 min |
| Aug 18, 5:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek | 87 min |
| Aug 18, 7:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Bremer, Buchanan, Chickasaw, Clayton, Delaware and 3 more | 94 min |
| Aug 18, 9:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dickinson, Lyon, Osceola | 84 min |
| Aug 23, 2:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Boone, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler, Calhoun and 31 more | 55 min |
| Aug 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Cass, Fremont, Harrison, Mills and 7 more | 90 min |
| Aug 23, 8:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Audubon, Cass, Crawford, Fremont, Harrison and 7 more | 84 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Story County7
- Harrison County7
- Shelby County7
- Bremer County6
- Adams County6
- Cass County6
- Fremont County6
- Mills County6
- Montgomery County6
- Pottawattamie County6
- Boone County6
- Greene County6
- Guthrie County6
- Audubon County6
- Monona County6
- Dickinson County5
- Allamakee County5
- Buchanan County5
- Dubuque County5
- Fayette County5
- Grundy County5
- Tama County5
- Adair County5
- Page County5
- Chickasaw County5
- Hardin County5
- Wright County5
- Buena Vista County5
- Calhoun County5
- Carroll County5
- Clay County5
- Dallas County5
- Hamilton County5
- Pocahontas County5
- Polk County5
- Sac County5
- Webster County5
- Crawford County5
- Sioux County5
- Benton County4
58 more counties
- Black Hawk County4
- Clayton County4
- Delaware County4
- Jackson County4
- Butler County4
- Franklin County4
- Marshall County4
- Mitchell County4
- Emmet County4
- Humboldt County4
- Kossuth County4
- Madison County4
- Palo Alto County4
- Warren County4
- Ida County4
- Plymouth County4
- Woodbury County4
- Taylor County4
- Union County4
- Osceola County3
- Cedar County3
- Iowa County3
- Jones County3
- Linn County3
- Cerro Gordo County3
- Floyd County3
- Howard County3
- Winneshiek County3
- Cherokee County3
- O'Brien County3
- Jasper County3
- Hancock County3
- Winnebago County3
- Johnson County2
- Clinton County2
- Scott County2
- Clarke County2
- Marion County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Ringgold County2
- Lyon County2
- Worth County2
- Appanoose County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Jefferson County1
- Keokuk County1
- Louisa County1
- Lucas County1
- Mahaska County1
- Monroe County1
- Muscatine County1
- Van Buren County1
- Wapello County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne 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.