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Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, March 2016
6 mesoscale discussions in March 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 March 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 6
- Busiest day
- March 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 8:49 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 15, 2:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee and 5 more | 66 min |
| Mar 23, 1:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Decatur, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 23, 7:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Buena Vista, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Clay and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 23, 7:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Decatur, Lucas, Monroe, Wayne | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Cass, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery and 5 more | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Allamakee County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Floyd County2
- Howard County2
- Winneshiek County2
- Adams County2
- Decatur County2
- Fremont County2
- Mills County2
- Montgomery County2
- Page County2
- Ringgold County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Benton County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Bremer County1
- Buchanan County1
- Butler County1
- Clayton County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Grundy County1
- Hardin County1
- Jackson County1
- Jones County1
- Linn County1
- Marshall County1
- Tama County1
- Cedar County1
- Clinton County1
- Des Moines County1
- Henry County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lee County1
- Louisa County1
- Muscatine County1
- Scott County1
29 more counties
- Van Buren County1
- Washington County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Emmet County1
- Hancock County1
- Humboldt County1
- Kossuth County1
- Lyon County1
- Mitchell County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Plymouth County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sioux County1
- Winnebago County1
- Worth County1
- Appanoose County1
- Clarke County1
- Lucas County1
- Monroe County1
- Wayne County1
- Adair County1
- Cass County1
- Pottawattamie 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.