Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2015

Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, May 2015

10 mesoscale discussions in May 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
10
Busiest day
May 10, 20152 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 5:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Norman, Wilkin2 hr
May 3, 3:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge and 20 more2 hr
May 3, 7:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFillmore, Mower58 min
May 10, 10:24 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJackson, Nobles, Rock3 hr
May 10, 2:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCMurray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock92 min
May 16, 2:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi and 13 more95 min
May 16, 7:11 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 12 more94 min
May 17, 12:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 28 more114 min
May 25, 6:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlue Earth, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn and 13 more114 min
May 28, 2:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen and 6 more55 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

28 more counties

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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.