Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2012
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, April 2012
5 mesoscale discussions in April 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 5
- Busiest day
- April 15, 20124 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 14, 7:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 84 min |
| Apr 15, 12:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 13 more | 65 min |
| Apr 15, 1:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge and 18 more | 94 min |
| Apr 15, 5:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey and 3 more | 96 min |
| Apr 21, 1:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 10 more | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Nobles County2
- Pipestone County2
- Rock County2
- Chippewa County2
- Douglas County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Lyon County2
- Pope County2
- Stevens County2
- Swift County2
- Wright County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Carver County2
- Dakota County2
- Redwood County2
- Scott County2
- Benton County1
- Big Stone County1
- Lincoln County1
- Meeker County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Renville County1
- Sherburne County1
- Stearns County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Dodge County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Jackson County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Martin County1
- Mower County1
- Murray County1
- Nicollet County1
- Rice County1
- Sibley County1
Nearby
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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.