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Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, February 2018
5 mesoscale discussions in February 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 5
- Busiest day
- February 5, 20182 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 5, 11:36 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 47 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 4:57 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 8, 9:07 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan, Buena Vista and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 9, 3:08 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Jackson, Muscatine, Scott | 6 hr |
| Feb 20, 2:43 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Black Hawk, Bremer, Butler, Chickasaw, Floyd, Grundy and 10 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Black Hawk County3
- Cedar County3
- Grundy County3
- Hardin County3
- Marshall County3
- Muscatine County3
- Scott County3
- Tama County3
- Clinton County3
- Benton County2
- Boone County2
- Buchanan County2
- Carroll County2
- Crawford County2
- Des Moines County2
- Greene County2
- Hamilton County2
- Henry County2
- Jasper County2
- Jones County2
- Lee County2
- Linn County2
- Louisa County2
- Lucas County2
- Marion County2
- Poweshiek County2
- Story County2
- Washington County2
- Bremer County2
- Butler County2
- Jackson County2
- Adair County1
- Adams County1
- Appanoose County1
- Audubon County1
- Cass County1
- Clarke County1
- Dallas County1
- Davis County1
- Guthrie County1
37 more counties
- Iowa County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Keokuk County1
- Madison County1
- Mahaska County1
- Mills County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Polk County1
- Pottawattamie County1
- Shelby County1
- Union County1
- Van Buren County1
- Wapello County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clayton County1
- Delaware County1
- Dubuque County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Humboldt County1
- Ida County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sac County1
- Webster County1
- Woodbury County1
- Wright County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Floyd County1
- Howard County1
- Mitchell County1
- Winneshiek 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.