Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2017
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, May 2017
11 mesoscale discussions in May 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 May 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 17, 20175 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 8, 6:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Le Sueur, Martin and 8 more | 116 min |
| May 15, 9:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson, Nobles, Rock | 90 min |
| May 15, 8:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 19 more | 115 min |
| May 16, 2:13 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore and 22 more | 92 min |
| May 16, 3:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 28 more | 88 min |
| May 16, 9:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Wabasha | 61 min |
| May 16, 11:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Steele and 2 more | 117 min |
| May 17, 12:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston, Winona | 97 min |
| May 17, 2:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston and 7 more | 97 min |
| May 17, 6:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Mower | 55 min |
| May 28, 3:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Lac qui Parle and 9 more | 66 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Mower County7
- Dodge County6
- Steele County6
- Fillmore County6
- Wabasha County6
- Winona County6
- Houston County6
- Freeborn County5
- Rice County5
- Waseca County5
- Olmsted County5
- Blue Earth County4
- Faribault County4
- Le Sueur County4
- Martin County4
- Nicollet County4
- Scott County4
- Sibley County4
- Watonwan County4
- Jackson County4
- Goodhue County4
- Nobles County3
- Brown County3
- Dakota County3
- Rock County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Murray County2
- Pipestone County1
- Redwood County1
- Anoka County1
- Carver County1
- Chisago County1
- Hennepin County1
- Isanti County1
- McLeod County1
- Pine County1
- Ramsey County1
- Sherburne County1
- Washington County1
- Wright 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.