Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2016
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, December 2016
4 mesoscale discussions in December 2016. 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 December 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 4
- Busiest day
- December 5, 20161 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 5, 4:55 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 10, 11:32 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota, Dodge and 19 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 23, 3:48 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Mower | 6 hr |
| Dec 25, 5:13 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Clay and 22 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Beltrami County2
- Clay County2
- Clearwater County2
- Kittson County2
- Lake of the Woods County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Marshall County2
- Norman County2
- Pennington County2
- Polk County2
- Red Lake County2
- Roseau County2
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Carver County1
- Chippewa County1
- Dakota County1
- Dodge County1
- Goodhue County1
- Houston County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- McLeod County1
- Nicollet County1
- Olmsted County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Sibley County1
- Steele County1
- Wabasha County1
- Waseca County1
- Winona County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Faribault County1
- Fillmore County1
- Freeborn 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.