Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2008
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, December 2008
10 mesoscale discussions in December 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 December 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 10
- Busiest day
- December 14, 20084 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 14, 12:07 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Grant, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Pipestone, Stevens and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 14, 5:25 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone, Cass and 33 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 14, 11:23 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 14, 12:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Grant, Lac qui Parle and 15 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 18, 6:37 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Martin, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 18, 11:38 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 20 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 19, 11:21 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Grant, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 27, 9:41 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 12:49 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Otter Tail, Todd, Wadena, Wilkin | 4 hr |
| Dec 30, 6:11 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Chisago, Douglas, Grant, Hennepin and 13 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Grant County5
- Lincoln County5
- Wilkin County5
- Big Stone County4
- Lac qui Parle County4
- Pipestone County4
- Stevens County4
- Swift County4
- Traverse County4
- Clay County4
- Chippewa County3
- Lyon County3
- Otter Tail County3
- Todd County3
- Yellow Medicine County3
- Murray County3
- Nobles County3
- Rock County3
- Aitkin County2
- Becker County2
- Benton County2
- Cass County2
- Douglas County2
- Itasca County2
- Kanabec County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Meeker County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Morrison County2
- Norman County2
- Pennington County2
- Polk County2
- Pope County2
- Red Lake County2
- Sherburne County2
- Stearns County2
- Wadena County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Jackson County2
- Martin County2
40 more counties
- Houston County2
- Beltrami County1
- Clearwater County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Hubbard County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Renville County1
- Carlton County1
- Cook County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Marshall County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Dakota County1
- Dodge County1
- Faribault County1
- Fillmore County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Mower County1
- Nicollet County1
- Olmsted County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Steele County1
- Wabasha County1
- Waseca County1
- Watonwan County1
- Winona County1
- Redwood County1
- Anoka County1
- Chisago County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- Ramsey County1
- Washington 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.