Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2018
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, April 2018
4 mesoscale discussions in April 2018. 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 April 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 4
- Busiest day
- April 14, 20182 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 8:44 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore and 21 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 6:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Dodge and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Grant, Hubbard, Lac qui Parle and 4 more | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dodge County3
- Le Sueur County3
- Nicollet County3
- Rice County3
- Steele County3
- Blue Earth County2
- Brown County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Faribault County2
- Fillmore County2
- Freeborn County2
- Goodhue County2
- Houston County2
- Jackson County2
- Lyon County2
- Martin County2
- Mower County2
- Murray County2
- Nobles County2
- Olmsted County2
- Pipestone County2
- Redwood County2
- Rock County2
- Wabasha County2
- Waseca County2
- Watonwan County2
- Winona County2
- Anoka County2
- Carver County2
- Dakota County2
- Hennepin County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- McLeod County2
- Meeker County2
- Ramsey County2
- Renville County2
- Scott County2
- Sibley County2
- Wright County2
- Chippewa County1
22 more counties
- Lincoln County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Benton County1
- Chisago County1
- Isanti County1
- Kanabec County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Pine County1
- Sherburne County1
- Stearns County1
- Washington County1
- Becker County1
- Big Stone County1
- Clay County1
- Grant County1
- Hubbard County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Stevens County1
- Traverse County1
- Wilkin 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.