Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2016
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, May 2016
9 mesoscale discussions in May 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 May 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 23, 20162 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 6, 3:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Cottonwood and 24 more | 2 hr |
| May 9, 2:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Nobles, Rock | 94 min |
| May 22, 7:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Pipestone, Rock | 87 min |
| May 23, 1:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota and 31 more | 92 min |
| May 24, 4:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carver, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin, Kandiyohi, Le Sueur and 6 more | 65 min |
| May 25, 4:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Douglas, Fillmore and 19 more | 61 min |
| May 28, 5:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Steele and 1 more | 57 min |
| May 30, 5:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Faribault, Jackson, Martin and 3 more | 91 min |
| May 30, 6:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Clay, Mahnomen, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 3 more | 113 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blue Earth County4
- Carver County4
- Dakota County4
- Hennepin County4
- Le Sueur County4
- McLeod County4
- Meeker County4
- Nobles County4
- Rice County4
- Rock County4
- Scott County4
- Sibley County4
- Brown County3
- Cottonwood County3
- Murray County3
- Nicollet County3
- Pipestone County3
- Renville County3
- Watonwan County3
- Wright County3
- Dodge County3
- Goodhue County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- Mower County3
- Steele County3
- Anoka County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- Ramsey County2
- Redwood County2
- Sherburne County2
- Washington County2
- Big Stone County2
- Faribault County2
- Freeborn County2
- Jackson County2
- Martin County2
- Stearns County2
- Waseca County2
- Fillmore County2
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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.