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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 6:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Le Sueur, Martin and 8 more116 min
May 15, 9:15 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJackson, Nobles, Rock90 min
May 15, 8:50 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 19 more115 min
May 16, 2:13 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore and 22 more92 min
May 16, 3:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 28 more88 min
May 16, 9:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCWabasha61 min
May 16, 11:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Steele and 2 more117 min
May 17, 12:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHouston, Winona97 min
May 17, 2:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston and 7 more97 min
May 17, 6:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFillmore, Houston, Mower55 min
May 28, 3:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBecker, Big Stone, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Lac qui Parle and 9 more66 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

15 more counties

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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.