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Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, August 2020

44 mesoscale discussions in August 2020. 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 August 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
44
Busiest day
August 14, 20207 mesoscale discussions

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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
Aug 7, 2:30 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAitkin, Becker, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Clay and 19 more3 hr
Aug 7, 8:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAitkin, Becker, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Chisago and 10 more118 min
Aug 7, 11:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Chisago, Crow Wing and 7 more95 min
Aug 8, 12:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBecker, Big Stone, Cass, Chippewa, Crow Wing, Douglas and 11 more114 min
Aug 8, 1:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Le Sueur and 7 more94 min
Aug 8, 5:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston and 9 more2 hr
Aug 9, 1:46 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock59 min
Aug 9, 11:48 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Marshall and 5 more57 min
Aug 9, 12:30 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChisago, Pine, Washington3 hr
Aug 9, 2:30 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Mahnomen and 9 more90 min
Aug 9, 5:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBecker, Beltrami, Big Stone, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas and 11 more96 min
Aug 9, 8:11 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarver, Dakota, Hennepin, McLeod, Ramsey, Scott and 2 more94 min
Aug 9, 10:59 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Cottonwood and 32 more3 hr
Aug 10, 2:30 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnoka, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue and 12 more90 min
Aug 10, 3:19 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCRock116 min
Aug 13, 4:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen and 8 more88 min
Aug 13, 8:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Koochiching and 11 more94 min
Aug 14, 12:33 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAitkin, Becker, Benton, Cass, Crow Wing, Douglas and 15 more87 min
Aug 14, 6:06 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Mahnomen, Marshall and 5 more114 min
Aug 14, 10:19 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas, Grant and 9 more86 min
Aug 14, 1:57 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 38 more2 hr
Aug 14, 4:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 15 more97 min
Aug 14, 5:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles, Rock and 1 more85 min
Aug 14, 7:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnoka, Carlton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin and 7 more92 min
Aug 14, 10:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFillmore, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona54 min
Aug 15, 3:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAitkin, Beltrami, Cass, Clearwater, Hubbard, Itasca and 7 more61 min
Aug 15, 6:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeltrami, Cass, Clearwater, Hubbard, Itasca, Kittson and 8 more96 min
Aug 15, 8:44 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeltrami, Clearwater, Koochiching, Red Lake91 min
Aug 19, 4:54 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClearwater, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 1 more2 hr
Aug 19, 6:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCook, Koochiching94 min
Aug 21, 5:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Stone, Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Redwood, Stevens and 2 more58 min
Aug 21, 7:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Carver, Kandiyohi, Le Sueur, McLeod and 7 more118 min
Aug 21, 9:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Chisago, Dakota, Dodge, Goodhue and 11 more2 hr
Aug 22, 4:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Kanabec and 3 more3 hr
Aug 23, 5:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Stone, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Stevens, Traverse and 1 more95 min
Aug 23, 8:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Pope, Stevens and 3 more2 hr
Aug 24, 1:17 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 5 more118 min
Aug 24, 4:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota and 27 more90 min
Aug 25, 11:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLake, Saint Louis3 hr
Aug 27, 11:30 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLincoln, Pipestone, Rock2 hr
Aug 28, 1:28 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 29 more92 min
Aug 28, 4:04 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 31 more86 min
Aug 28, 6:59 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower and 3 more91 min
Aug 30, 8:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Stone, Traverse2 hr

By county

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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.