Alert archive / Iowa / Mesoscale Discussions / 2019
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, February 2019
7 mesoscale discussions in February 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 7
- Busiest day
- February 5, 20192 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, 1:20 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Emmet, Kossuth, Winnebago | 5 hr |
| Feb 5, 1:37 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Delaware, Des Moines and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 6, 9:33 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Cedar, Clarke, Davis and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 7, 6:26 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque, Henry and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 16, 7:26 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 33 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 17, 12:46 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 27 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 23, 5:26 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 34 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cedar County4
- Des Moines County4
- Henry County4
- Iowa County4
- Johnson County4
- Keokuk County4
- Linn County4
- Louisa County4
- Mahaska County4
- Muscatine County4
- Poweshiek County4
- Washington County4
- Davis County3
- Delaware County3
- Jefferson County3
- Jones County3
- Scott County3
- Van Buren County3
- Wapello County3
- Jasper County3
- Marion County3
- Polk County3
- Boone County3
- Dallas County3
- Guthrie County3
- Emmet County2
- Kossuth County2
- Winnebago County2
- Benton County2
- Clinton County2
- Dubuque County2
- Jackson County2
- Lee County2
- Adair County2
- Adams County2
- Appanoose County2
- Clarke County2
- Decatur County2
- Lucas County2
- Madison County2
50 more counties
- Monroe County2
- Page County2
- Ringgold County2
- Taylor County2
- Union County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Audubon County2
- Carroll County2
- Cass County2
- Crawford County2
- Greene County2
- Harrison County2
- Monona County2
- Pottawattamie County2
- Shelby County2
- Butler County2
- Franklin County2
- Hamilton County2
- Hardin County2
- Story County2
- Fremont County1
- Mills County1
- Montgomery County1
- Black Hawk County1
- Bremer County1
- Buchanan County1
- Grundy County1
- Marshall County1
- Tama County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Dickinson County1
- Floyd County1
- Hancock County1
- Humboldt County1
- Ida County1
- Mitchell County1
- O'Brien County1
- Osceola County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sac County1
- Webster County1
- Woodbury County1
- Worth County1
- Wright 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.