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Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, February 2017
5 mesoscale discussions in February 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 5
- Busiest day
- February 24, 20173 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 23, 6:05 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Clay and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 23, 9:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 47 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 23, 11:54 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 28, 2:03 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 28, 5:24 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Jackson, Jefferson and 7 more | 96 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hamilton County3
- Des Moines County3
- Henry County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lee County3
- Louisa County3
- Muscatine County3
- Washington County3
- Buena Vista County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Cerro Gordo County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Crawford County2
- Dickinson County2
- Emmet County2
- Franklin County2
- Greene County2
- Hancock County2
- Harrison County2
- Humboldt County2
- Ida County2
- Kossuth County2
- Lyon County2
- Mitchell County2
- Monona County2
- O'Brien County2
- Osceola County2
- Palo Alto County2
- Plymouth County2
- Pocahontas County2
- Sac County2
- Sioux County2
- Webster County2
- Winnebago County2
- Woodbury County2
- Worth County2
- Wright County2
- Cedar County2
56 more counties
- Johnson County2
- Van Buren County2
- Clinton County2
- Scott County2
- Shelby County1
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Appanoose County1
- Audubon County1
- Benton County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Boone County1
- Buchanan County1
- Cass County1
- Clarke County1
- Dallas County1
- Davis County1
- Decatur County1
- Fremont County1
- Grundy County1
- Guthrie County1
- Hardin County1
- Iowa County1
- Jasper County1
- Keokuk County1
- Linn County1
- Lucas County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Mills County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Page County1
- Polk County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Poweshiek County1
- Ringgold County1
- Story County1
- Tama County1
- Taylor County1
- Union County1
- Wapello County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Allamakee County1
- Bremer County1
- Butler County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Fayette County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Winneshiek County1
- Jackson County1
- Jones 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.