Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2018
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, March 2018
3 mesoscale discussions in March 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 March 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 3
- Busiest day
- March 5, 20181 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 1:17 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Big Stone, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota, Dodge and 27 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 23, 8:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Faribault and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs and 5 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Anoka County2
- Big Stone County2
- Chippewa County2
- Ramsey County2
- Sherburne County2
- Sibley County2
- Swift County2
- Washington County2
- Wright County2
- Carver County1
- Dakota County1
- Dodge County1
- Douglas County1
- Fillmore County1
- Goodhue County1
- Grant County1
- Hennepin County1
- Houston County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Le Sueur County1
- McLeod County1
- Meeker County1
- Mower County1
- Olmsted County1
- Pope County1
- Rice County1
- Scott County1
- Stearns County1
- Steele County1
- Stevens County1
- Traverse County1
- Wabasha County1
- Winona County1
- Blue Earth County1
- Brown County1
- Cottonwood County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn County1
- Jackson County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
19 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.