Alert archive / Iowa / Mesoscale Discussions / 2016
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, February 2016
3 mesoscale discussions in February 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 February 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 3
- Busiest day
- February 2, 20163 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 2, 3:39 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Cherokee, Crawford, Harrison, Ida, Monona and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 2, 7:50 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler and 37 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 2, 11:35 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Bremer, Buena Vista, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Chickasaw and 20 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cherokee County3
- Woodbury County3
- Carroll County2
- Crawford County2
- Harrison County2
- Ida County2
- Monona County2
- Sac County2
- Shelby County2
- Bremer County2
- Buena Vista County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Emmet County2
- Floyd County2
- Hancock County2
- Howard County2
- Kossuth County2
- Mitchell County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Plymouth County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Sioux County2
- Winnebago County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Worth County2
- Audubon County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Grundy County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hardin 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.