Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2017
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, August 2017
8 mesoscale discussions in August 2017. 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 August 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 8
- Busiest day
- August 18, 20172 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 7:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Nobles, Rock | 97 min |
| Aug 16, 5:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Le Sueur, McLeod, Nicollet, Sibley | 116 min |
| Aug 16, 9:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carver, Hennepin, Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Renville and 2 more | 90 min |
| Aug 18, 2:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Faribault and 15 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 6:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson and 8 more | 62 min |
| Aug 18, 9:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Faribault, Freeborn, Martin | 60 min |
| Aug 21, 11:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Rock | 93 min |
| Aug 21, 2:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Martin, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone and 1 more | 85 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Nobles County4
- Rock County4
- Martin County4
- Brown County3
- Nicollet County3
- Cottonwood County3
- Faribault County3
- Jackson County3
- Murray County3
- Pipestone County3
- McLeod County2
- Renville County2
- Blue Earth County2
- Redwood County2
- Watonwan County2
- Freeborn County2
- Le Sueur County1
- Sibley County1
- Carver County1
- Hennepin County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Meeker County1
- Scott County1
- Wright County1
- Big Stone County1
- Chippewa County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Swift County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Waseca 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.