Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2012
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, August 2012
12 mesoscale discussions in August 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 August 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 12
- Busiest day
- August 1, 20122 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 1:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin and 6 more | 23 min |
| Aug 1, 4:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 24 more | 91 min |
| Aug 1, 7:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 27 more | 55 min |
| Aug 1, 10:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 94 min |
| Aug 3, 6:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Clay, Cottonwood and 28 more | 86 min |
| Aug 3, 10:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton and 33 more | 87 min |
| Aug 15, 2:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone and 63 more | 64 min |
| Aug 15, 5:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone and 51 more | 86 min |
| Aug 15, 8:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton and 38 more | 85 min |
| Aug 16, 3:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 6:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Jackson, Lyon, Martin and 9 more | 53 min |
| Aug 28, 1:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Lac qui Parle and 8 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brown County8
- Anoka County7
- Carver County7
- Dakota County7
- Hennepin County7
- Ramsey County7
- Rice County7
- Scott County7
- Washington County7
- Meeker County7
- Nicollet County7
- Redwood County7
- Renville County7
- Sibley County7
- Chisago County6
- Goodhue County6
- Chippewa County6
- Kandiyohi County6
- Lac qui Parle County6
- Le Sueur County6
- McLeod County6
- Swift County6
- Wright County6
- Blue Earth County6
- Watonwan County6
- Wabasha County5
- Benton County5
- Isanti County5
- Lyon County5
- Sherburne County5
- Yellow Medicine County5
- Steele County5
- Waseca County5
- Stearns County4
- Cottonwood County4
- Dodge County4
- Murray County4
- Pipestone County4
- Big Stone County4
- Douglas County4
44 more counties
- Grant County4
- Martin County4
- Otter Tail County4
- Pope County4
- Stevens County4
- Traverse County4
- Aitkin County4
- Carlton County4
- Kanabec County4
- Mille Lacs County4
- Pine County4
- Winona County3
- Lincoln County3
- Houston County3
- Olmsted County3
- Becker County3
- Clay County3
- Jackson County3
- Mahnomen County3
- Nobles County3
- Rock County3
- Wilkin County3
- Faribault County3
- Freeborn County3
- Crow Wing County3
- Itasca County3
- Morrison County3
- Todd County3
- Wadena County3
- Fillmore County2
- Beltrami County2
- Cass County2
- Clearwater County2
- Hubbard County2
- Lake County2
- Saint Louis County2
- Norman County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Mower County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Cook 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.