Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2008
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, April 2008
8 mesoscale discussions in April 2008. 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 April 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 8
- Busiest day
- April 11, 20082 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 11:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 6, 7:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Carlton, Cass, Clay, Crow Wing and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 10, 7:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Benton, Big Stone, Carlton and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 10, 11:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Big Stone, Carlton, Cass, Chippewa and 23 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 21, 11:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Jackson, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 24, 5:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Freeborn | 56 min |
| Apr 25, 6:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Swift | 6 hr |
| Apr 25, 2:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston, Winona | 65 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cass County4
- Wadena County4
- Big Stone County4
- Lac qui Parle County4
- Swift County4
- Becker County3
- Clay County3
- Hubbard County3
- Saint Louis County3
- Wilkin County3
- Aitkin County3
- Carlton County3
- Crow Wing County3
- Lake County3
- Otter Tail County3
- Chippewa County3
- Lincoln County3
- Stevens County3
- Itasca County2
- Benton County2
- Douglas County2
- Grant County2
- Isanti County2
- Kanabec County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Lyon County2
- Meeker County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Morrison County2
- Pine County2
- Pope County2
- Sherburne County2
- Stearns County2
- Todd County2
- Traverse County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Beltrami County1
- Clearwater County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Norman 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.