Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2012
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, March 2012
3 mesoscale discussions in March 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 March 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 3
- Busiest day
- March 19, 20123 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 1:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Faribault and 18 more | 116 min |
| Mar 19, 3:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Benton, Big Stone, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas and 18 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 19, 6:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn and 11 more | 62 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Big Stone County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Swift County2
- Benton County2
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Chippewa County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Faribault County1
- Jackson County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- McLeod County1
- Martin County1
- Murray County1
- Nicollet County1
- Nobles County1
- Pipestone County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Rock County1
- Sibley County1
- Watonwan County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Becker County1
- Clay County1
- Clearwater County1
- Douglas County1
- Grant County1
- Hubbard County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Morrison County1
- Norman County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Pope County1
- Red Lake County1
- Stearns County1
21 more counties
- Stevens County1
- Todd County1
- Traverse County1
- Wadena County1
- Wilkin County1
- Carver County1
- Dakota County1
- Dodge County1
- Fillmore County1
- Freeborn County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sherburne County1
- Steele County1
- Waseca 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.