Alert archive / Iowa / Mesoscale Discussions / 2017
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, March 2017
9 mesoscale discussions in March 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 March 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 9
- Busiest day
- March 7, 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 28, 8:06 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Des Moines, Lee | 84 min |
| Mar 6, 1:08 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 52 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 6, 3:35 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone and 57 more | 115 min |
| Mar 6, 6:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton and 57 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 6, 7:42 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan and 40 more | 63 min |
| Mar 6, 8:22 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lee | 2 hr |
| Mar 19, 11:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Cedar, Clinton, Iowa, Jackson, Johnson and 6 more | 85 min |
| Mar 23, 10:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Ida and 9 more | 89 min |
| Mar 23, 6:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee | 92 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County5
- Iowa County5
- Poweshiek County5
- Tama County5
- Black Hawk County4
- Bremer County4
- Buchanan County4
- Butler County4
- Chickasaw County4
- Floyd County4
- Grundy County4
- Jasper County4
- Johnson County4
- Keokuk County4
- Linn County4
- Lucas County4
- Mahaska County4
- Marion County4
- Marshall County4
- Monroe County4
- Polk County4
- Wapello County4
- Warren County4
- Lee County3
- Adair County3
- Adams County3
- Appanoose County3
- Audubon County3
- Boone County3
- Buena Vista County3
- Cass County3
- Cerro Gordo County3
- Clarke County3
- Dallas County3
- Franklin County3
- Greene County3
- Guthrie County3
- Hamilton County3
- Hancock County3
- Hardin County3
55 more counties
- Humboldt County3
- Jefferson County3
- Kossuth County3
- Madison County3
- Montgomery County3
- Palo Alto County3
- Pocahontas County3
- Story County3
- Union County3
- Washington County3
- Wayne County3
- Webster County3
- Wright County3
- Fayette County3
- Howard County3
- Winneshiek County3
- Allamakee County3
- Des Moines County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Crawford County2
- Ida County2
- Sac County2
- Shelby County2
- Clay County2
- Decatur County2
- Dickinson County2
- Emmet County2
- Mitchell County2
- Ringgold County2
- Winnebago County2
- Worth County2
- Clayton County2
- Davis County2
- Delaware County2
- Van Buren County2
- Cedar County2
- Clinton County2
- Jackson County2
- Jones County2
- Muscatine County2
- Scott County2
- Pottawattamie County1
- Page County1
- Taylor County1
- Dubuque County1
- Henry County1
- Louisa County1
- Cherokee County1
- Lyon County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Plymouth County1
- Sioux County1
- Woodbury 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.