Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2008
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, May 2008
20 mesoscale discussions in May 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 20
- Busiest day
- May 25, 20086 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 6:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson, Nobles, Rock | 57 min |
| May 1, 7:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Martin, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 88 min |
| May 1, 8:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota and 13 more | 92 min |
| May 2, 11:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Mower | 115 min |
| May 2, 3:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fillmore, Houston | 118 min |
| May 6, 10:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Nobles, Rock | 94 min |
| May 17, 1:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Pine | 92 min |
| May 19, 6:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson | 54 min |
| May 24, 6:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone and 2 more | 113 min |
| May 24, 9:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi and 18 more | 59 min |
| May 24, 9:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas, Grant, Kittson and 9 more | 2 hr |
| May 25, 9:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carlton, Cook, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs and 4 more | 94 min |
| May 25, 12:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago and 33 more | 92 min |
| May 25, 2:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Hubbard and 10 more | 35 min |
| May 25, 6:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Carver, Cass and 20 more | 59 min |
| May 28, 11:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 94 min |
| May 29, 5:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota, Dodge, Douglas and 25 more | 2 hr |
| May 30, 12:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 5 more | 59 min |
| May 31, 2:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Blue Earth, Carver and 39 more | 53 min |
| May 31, 6:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Benton, Blue Earth, Carver and 47 more | 67 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kandiyohi County7
- McLeod County7
- Rock County6
- Carver County6
- Dakota County6
- Meeker County6
- Nicollet County6
- Scott County6
- Sibley County6
- Mille Lacs County6
- Morrison County6
- Stearns County6
- Nobles County5
- Big Stone County5
- Chippewa County5
- Le Sueur County5
- Renville County5
- Rice County5
- Swift County5
- Waseca County5
- Fillmore County5
- Douglas County5
- Benton County5
- Isanti County5
- Kanabec County5
- Sherburne County5
- Hennepin County5
- Wright County5
- Jackson County4
- Lincoln County4
- Murray County4
- Pipestone County4
- Blue Earth County4
- Lac qui Parle County4
- Houston County4
- Mower County4
- Pine County4
- Grant County4
- Anoka County4
- Dodge County4
46 more counties
- Freeborn County4
- Ramsey County4
- Steele County4
- Cass County4
- Crow Wing County4
- Todd County4
- Pope County4
- Brown County3
- Yellow Medicine County3
- Lyon County3
- Stevens County3
- Becker County3
- Clay County3
- Clearwater County3
- Mahnomen County3
- Norman County3
- Otter Tail County3
- Wilkin County3
- Carlton County3
- Chisago County3
- Goodhue County3
- Olmsted County3
- Washington County3
- Aitkin County3
- Hubbard County3
- Wadena County3
- Cottonwood County2
- Martin County2
- Watonwan County2
- Kittson County2
- Marshall County2
- Pennington County2
- Polk County2
- Red Lake County2
- Roseau County2
- Wabasha County2
- Winona County2
- Beltrami County2
- Itasca County2
- Koochiching County2
- Saint Louis County2
- Traverse County2
- Redwood County1
- Cook County1
- Faribault County1
- Lake of the Woods 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.