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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 5:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Norman, Wilkin | 2 hr |
| May 3, 3:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge and 20 more | 2 hr |
| May 3, 7:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fillmore, Mower | 58 min |
| May 10, 10:24 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson, Nobles, Rock | 3 hr |
| May 10, 2:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 92 min |
| May 16, 2:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi and 13 more | 95 min |
| May 16, 7:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 12 more | 94 min |
| May 17, 12:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 28 more | 114 min |
| May 25, 6:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn and 13 more | 114 min |
| May 28, 2:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen and 6 more | 55 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jackson County5
- Nobles County5
- Cottonwood County4
- Mower County4
- Rock County4
- Blue Earth County3
- Brown County3
- Dodge County3
- Faribault County3
- Freeborn County3
- Martin County3
- Steele County3
- Waseca County3
- Watonwan County3
- Murray County3
- Chippewa County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- Redwood County3
- Renville County3
- Swift County3
- Clay County2
- Norman County2
- Carver County2
- Dakota County2
- Hennepin County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Nicollet County2
- Olmsted County2
- Rice County2
- Scott County2
- Sibley County2
- Wabasha County2
- Fillmore County2
- Pipestone County2
- Big Stone County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- Stevens County2
- Traverse County2
28 more counties
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Douglas County2
- Meeker County2
- Pope County2
- Stearns County2
- Wilkin County1
- Goodhue County1
- Ramsey County1
- Washington County1
- Grant County1
- Todd County1
- Benton County1
- McLeod County1
- Morrison County1
- Sherburne County1
- Wright County1
- Houston County1
- Winona County1
- Beltrami County1
- Clearwater County1
- Kittson County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Marshall County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau 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.