Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2020
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, September 2020
6 mesoscale discussions in September 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 September 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 6
- Busiest day
- September 6, 20204 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 7:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Norman, Polk | 86 min |
| Sep 5, 7:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Dakota and 29 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 5, 11:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Faribault, Freeborn and 13 more | 94 min |
| Sep 6, 1:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore and 18 more | 84 min |
| Sep 6, 2:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore and 14 more | 88 min |
| Sep 26, 5:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chisago, Washington | 118 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blue Earth County4
- Brown County4
- Cottonwood County4
- Faribault County4
- Freeborn County4
- Jackson County4
- Martin County4
- Mower County4
- Nicollet County4
- Redwood County4
- Waseca County4
- Watonwan County4
- Dodge County3
- Fillmore County3
- Le Sueur County3
- Lyon County3
- Murray County3
- Olmsted County3
- Renville County3
- Rice County3
- Sibley County3
- Steele County3
- Yellow Medicine County3
- Chippewa County2
- Swift County2
- Nobles County2
- Clay County1
- Norman County1
- Polk County1
- Carver County1
- Dakota County1
- Goodhue County1
- Hennepin County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lincoln County1
- McLeod County1
- Meeker County1
- Pope County1
- Scott County1
- Houston County1
2 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.