Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2021
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, May 2021
11 mesoscale discussions in May 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 May 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 25, 20212 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 2, 4:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Martin and 3 more | 115 min |
| May 14, 4:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln and 8 more | 92 min |
| May 15, 1:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Chisago, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 15 more | 119 min |
| May 19, 5:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kittson, Marshall | 117 min |
| May 19, 7:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge and 14 more | 114 min |
| May 20, 9:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower | 115 min |
| May 22, 1:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cook, Lake, Saint Louis | 2 hr |
| May 25, 2:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cook, Dodge, Goodhue, Rice, Steele, Wabasha | 2 hr |
| May 25, 5:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Winona | 118 min |
| May 30, 3:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Cass, Clay and 18 more | 113 min |
| May 30, 7:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Lake, Saint Louis | 63 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dodge County4
- Freeborn County4
- Faribault County3
- Fillmore County3
- Mower County3
- Goodhue County3
- Rice County3
- Steele County3
- Saint Louis County3
- Houston County2
- Martin County2
- Olmsted County2
- Winona County2
- Douglas County2
- Blue Earth County2
- Dakota County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Scott County2
- Wabasha County2
- Waseca County2
- Cook County2
- Lake County2
- Aitkin County2
- Big Stone County1
- Chippewa County1
- Grant County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Pipestone County1
- Pope County1
- Rock County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Traverse County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Anoka County1
- Chisago County1
- Hennepin County1
- Ramsey County1
34 more counties
- Washington County1
- Kittson County1
- Marshall County1
- Brown County1
- Carver County1
- Cottonwood County1
- McLeod County1
- Nicollet County1
- Redwood County1
- Renville County1
- Sibley County1
- Watonwan County1
- Becker County1
- Beltrami County1
- Benton County1
- Cass County1
- Clay County1
- Clearwater County1
- Crow Wing County1
- Hubbard County1
- Itasca County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Mahnomen County1
- Mille Lacs County1
- Morrison County1
- Norman County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Todd County1
- Wadena County1
- Carlton 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. Rebuilt daily.