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Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, August 2023
14 mesoscale discussions in August 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 14
- Busiest day
- August 11, 20235 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 3:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Clay, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Pennington and 2 more | 113 min |
| Aug 1, 5:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen, Norman and 6 more | 91 min |
| Aug 5, 2:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Pipestone, Rock | 95 min |
| Aug 8, 3:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Clay and 12 more | 93 min |
| Aug 9, 1:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore and 16 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 6:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Traverse, Wilkin | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 9:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln and 7 more | 115 min |
| Aug 10, 11:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Faribault, Jackson, Le Sueur and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 11, 1:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Carver, Chisago and 32 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 11, 4:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago and 27 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 11, 6:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn and 11 more | 63 min |
| Aug 16, 3:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cook, Crow Wing, Isanti and 9 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 7:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Pine | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 8:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue and 11 more | 97 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Le Sueur County6
- Waseca County6
- Blue Earth County5
- Dakota County5
- Dodge County5
- Goodhue County5
- Mower County5
- Nicollet County5
- Olmsted County5
- Rice County5
- Scott County5
- Steele County5
- Pine County4
- Brown County4
- Carver County4
- Fillmore County4
- Houston County4
- McLeod County4
- Sibley County4
- Wabasha County4
- Winona County4
- Isanti County4
- Kanabec County4
- Becker County3
- Clay County3
- Mahnomen County3
- Norman County3
- Red Lake County3
- Aitkin County3
- Carlton County3
- Crow Wing County3
- Watonwan County3
- Meeker County3
- Faribault County3
- Martin County3
- Benton County3
- Chisago County3
- Mille Lacs County3
- Freeborn County3
- Pennington County2
39 more counties
- Polk County2
- Clearwater County2
- Hubbard County2
- Traverse County2
- Wilkin County2
- Lake County2
- Saint Louis County2
- Renville County2
- Kandiyohi County2
- Jackson County2
- Anoka County2
- Hennepin County2
- Morrison County2
- Ramsey County2
- Sherburne County2
- Stearns County2
- Todd County2
- Washington County2
- Wright County2
- Marshall County1
- Otter Tail County1
- Pipestone County1
- Rock County1
- Beltrami County1
- Cass County1
- Itasca County1
- Koochiching County1
- Wadena County1
- Big Stone County1
- Chippewa County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Redwood County1
- Stevens County1
- Swift County1
- Yellow Medicine County1
- Cook County1
- Pope 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.