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Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, August 2021

35 mesoscale discussions in August 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
35
Busiest day
August 28, 20218 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 3:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChippewa, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, Renville, Yellow Medicine65 min
Aug 5, 9:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCNobles, Rock86 min
Aug 6, 11:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCRock2 hr
Aug 7, 2:10 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJackson, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 3 more2 hr
Aug 7, 11:03 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 4 more2 hr
Aug 7, 3:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 2 more119 min
Aug 8, 5:04 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCottonwood, Jackson, Martin, Murray, Nobles86 min
Aug 9, 6:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKittson86 min
Aug 9, 9:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake and 1 more83 min
Aug 11, 7:27 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnoka, Chisago, Dakota, Dodge, Freeborn, Goodhue and 11 more2 hr
Aug 20, 1:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 4 more3 hr
Aug 20, 5:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBecker, Beltrami, Cass, Chippewa, Clearwater, Douglas and 20 more84 min
Aug 20, 8:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Blue Earth, Carver, Le Sueur, McLeod, Meeker and 9 more88 min
Aug 24, 1:10 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnoka, Benton, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota, Douglas and 26 more95 min
Aug 24, 3:00 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnoka, Benton, Big Stone, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 35 more2 hr
Aug 24, 5:00 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Kandiyohi, McLeod and 8 more90 min
Aug 24, 6:00 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower and 5 more90 min
Aug 24, 7:10 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlue Earth, Chisago, Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn and 13 more95 min
Aug 24, 12:44 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHouston91 min
Aug 26, 8:36 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Stone, Lac qui Parle84 min
Aug 26, 10:43 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone, Redwood and 1 more92 min
Aug 26, 1:12 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFillmore, Houston, Winona93 min
Aug 26, 1:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarver, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin, Le Sueur, Ramsey and 3 more97 min
Aug 26, 10:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlue Earth, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn and 10 more2 hr
Aug 27, 1:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Mower, Steele and 1 more97 min
Aug 27, 4:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFaribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 1 more59 min
Aug 27, 9:57 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFillmore, Houston93 min
Aug 28, 2:17 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Stone, Stevens, Swift, Traverse2 hr
Aug 28, 5:42 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi and 11 more2 hr
Aug 28, 9:39 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnoka, Benton, Chisago, Douglas, Grant, Isanti and 12 more2 hr
Aug 28, 1:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnoka, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Pine2 hr
Aug 28, 2:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCMurray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock3 hr
Aug 28, 5:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge and 22 more63 min
Aug 28, 6:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Nicollet, Watonwan66 min
Aug 28, 7:44 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more91 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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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. Rebuilt daily.