Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2018
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, May 2018
10 mesoscale discussions in May 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 May 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 10
- Busiest day
- May 25, 20183 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 1, 7:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 1 more | 95 min |
| May 8, 2:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Lac qui Parle, Stevens, Traverse | 2 hr |
| May 24, 1:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods, Pine | 2 hr |
| May 24, 2:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 2 hr |
| May 25, 12:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona | 2 hr |
| May 25, 5:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 40 more | 115 min |
| May 25, 6:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 40 more | 2 hr |
| May 29, 1:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Douglas, Jackson, Kandiyohi and 13 more | 83 min |
| May 29, 3:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown and 50 more | 96 min |
| May 29, 5:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Chisago and 16 more | 56 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Olmsted County5
- Murray County5
- Nobles County5
- Faribault County4
- Fillmore County4
- Freeborn County4
- Houston County4
- Mower County4
- Winona County4
- Anoka County4
- Brown County4
- Chippewa County4
- Chisago County4
- Cottonwood County4
- Dakota County4
- Goodhue County4
- Hennepin County4
- Isanti County4
- Jackson County4
- Kandiyohi County4
- McLeod County4
- Martin County4
- Meeker County4
- Nicollet County4
- Ramsey County4
- Redwood County4
- Renville County4
- Rice County4
- Scott County4
- Sherburne County4
- Sibley County4
- Washington County4
- Watonwan County4
- Aitkin County3
- Pipestone County3
- Rock County3
- Wabasha County3
- Blue Earth County3
- Carver County3
- Dodge County3
34 more counties
- Le Sueur County3
- Lyon County3
- Steele County3
- Waseca County3
- Wright County3
- Yellow Medicine County3
- Carlton County2
- Itasca County2
- Koochiching County2
- Pine County2
- Lincoln County2
- Douglas County2
- Pope County2
- Stearns County2
- Swift County2
- Cass County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Kanabec County2
- Mille Lacs County2
- Big Stone County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Stevens County1
- Traverse County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Becker County1
- Benton County1
- Hubbard County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Morrison County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Todd County1
- Wadena County1
- Beltrami County1
- Saint Louis 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.