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Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, May 2016
15 mesoscale discussions in May 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 May 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 15
- Busiest day
- May 26, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth and 2 more | 94 min |
| May 9, 4:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Audubon, Cass, Crawford, Fremont, Harrison and 7 more | 53 min |
| May 9, 7:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford and 8 more | 57 min |
| May 9, 10:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass and 15 more | 54 min |
| May 11, 5:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Fremont, Page, Ringgold, Taylor | 101 min |
| May 13, 12:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry and 10 more | 113 min |
| May 23, 1:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll and 39 more | 92 min |
| May 25, 2:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dubuque | 118 min |
| May 25, 11:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee, Clay and 20 more | 86 min |
| May 26, 10:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Page, Taylor | 57 min |
| May 26, 5:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Page, Taylor | 63 min |
| May 27, 5:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Fremont and 7 more | 64 min |
| May 28, 12:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Buchanan, Cedar, Clayton and 24 more | 113 min |
| May 28, 5:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 29 more | 57 min |
| May 30, 5:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 51 more | 91 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fremont County9
- Page County8
- Taylor County8
- Mills County7
- Audubon County6
- Crawford County6
- Harrison County6
- Montgomery County6
- Pottawattamie County6
- Shelby County6
- Woodbury County5
- Adams County5
- Cass County5
- Monona County5
- Carroll County5
- Cherokee County4
- Clay County4
- O'Brien County4
- Osceola County4
- Plymouth County4
- Sioux County4
- Adair County4
- Guthrie County4
- Calhoun County4
- Ida County4
- Sac County4
- Ringgold County4
- Lyon County3
- Greene County3
- Decatur County3
- Appanoose County3
- Clarke County3
- Davis County3
- Des Moines County3
- Henry County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lee County3
- Louisa County3
- Van Buren County3
- Buena Vista County3
59 more counties
- Dickinson County3
- Emmet County3
- Humboldt County3
- Kossuth County3
- Palo Alto County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Webster County3
- Dubuque County3
- Monroe County2
- Wapello County2
- Wayne County2
- Boone County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Dallas County2
- Franklin County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hancock County2
- Hardin County2
- Mitchell County2
- Story County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Wright County2
- Union County2
- Benton County2
- Black Hawk County2
- Buchanan County2
- Cedar County2
- Clayton County2
- Clinton County2
- Delaware County2
- Iowa County2
- Jackson County2
- Johnson County2
- Jones County2
- Keokuk County2
- Linn County2
- Muscatine County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Scott County2
- Tama County2
- Washington County2
- Grundy County2
- Lucas County1
- Mahaska County1
- Allamakee County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Jasper County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Polk County1
- Warren 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.