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Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, August 2024
21 mesoscale discussions in August 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 21
- Busiest day
- August 26, 20245 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 8:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore and 18 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 31, 11:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Dakota, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue and 8 more | 61 min |
| Aug 3, 1:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Cass, Clay, Hubbard, Itasca, Mahnomen and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 4:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 37 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 8:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin and 15 more | 96 min |
| Aug 3, 11:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 15 more | 94 min |
| Aug 5, 2:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore and 19 more | 114 min |
| Aug 5, 6:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Mower, Olmsted and 2 more | 61 min |
| Aug 5, 9:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 65 min |
| Aug 25, 11:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Clearwater and 21 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 26, 12:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Douglas, Grant, Morrison and 6 more | 85 min |
| Aug 26, 2:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Big Stone, Brown, Carver, Cass, Chippewa and 30 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Cottonwood and 25 more | 96 min |
| Aug 26, 6:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Carver, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin and 8 more | 91 min |
| Aug 26, 9:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lac qui Parle and 12 more | 92 min |
| Aug 27, 12:41 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 94 min |
| Aug 27, 3:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota and 26 more | 59 min |
| Aug 27, 5:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dakota, Ramsey, Washington | 93 min |
| Aug 29, 12:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Brown, Chippewa, Clearwater, Cottonwood, Douglas and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 29, 3:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin and 9 more | 97 min |
| Aug 29, 5:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Goodhue, Wabasha, Winona | 113 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brown County9
- Cottonwood County9
- Lyon County9
- Nicollet County9
- Waseca County9
- Blue Earth County8
- Jackson County8
- Murray County8
- Redwood County8
- Watonwan County8
- Dakota County8
- Le Sueur County8
- Carver County8
- Renville County8
- Lincoln County7
- Martin County7
- Nobles County7
- Pipestone County7
- Steele County7
- Scott County7
- Dodge County6
- Freeborn County6
- Mower County6
- Olmsted County6
- Rock County6
- Goodhue County6
- Rice County6
- Otter Tail County6
- Hennepin County6
- Kandiyohi County6
- McLeod County6
- Meeker County6
- Sibley County6
- Wright County6
- Yellow Medicine County6
- Ramsey County6
- Washington County6
- Faribault County5
- Fillmore County5
- Wadena County5
39 more counties
- Chippewa County5
- Douglas County5
- Grant County5
- Pope County5
- Sherburne County5
- Stevens County5
- Swift County5
- Anoka County5
- Wilkin County4
- Benton County4
- Lac qui Parle County4
- Morrison County4
- Stearns County4
- Todd County4
- Traverse County4
- Houston County3
- Winona County3
- Becker County3
- Cass County3
- Hubbard County3
- Big Stone County3
- Mille Lacs County3
- Isanti County3
- Wabasha County2
- Clay County2
- Mahnomen County2
- Clearwater County2
- Crow Wing County2
- Chisago County2
- Itasca County1
- Beltrami County1
- Lake of the Woods County1
- Norman County1
- Pennington County1
- Polk County1
- Red Lake County1
- Roseau County1
- Aitkin County1
- Kanabec 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.