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Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, August 2025
27 mesoscale discussions in August 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 27
- Busiest day
- August 9, 20255 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 5, 11:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lincoln, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 117 min |
| Aug 8, 1:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kittson | 87 min |
| Aug 8, 4:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Douglas and 16 more | 89 min |
| Aug 8, 8:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Brown, Carlton, Carver and 44 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 11:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton and 43 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 2:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton and 38 more | 95 min |
| Aug 9, 7:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Winona | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 10:03 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 87 min |
| Aug 11, 4:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Grant and 15 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 13, 6:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lac qui Parle | 114 min |
| Aug 14, 2:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Kandiyohi, Lyon and 11 more | 113 min |
| Aug 14, 6:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lyon | 113 min |
| Aug 14, 8:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Pennington and 3 more | 116 min |
| Aug 15, 7:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Pope, Stevens and 3 more | 89 min |
| Aug 15, 1:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Mower | 94 min |
| Aug 15, 4:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 26 more | 92 min |
| Aug 15, 7:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and 3 more | 96 min |
| Aug 16, 2:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone and 2 more | 87 min |
| Aug 16, 5:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver and 35 more | 89 min |
| Aug 16, 7:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Dodge and 22 more | 85 min |
| Aug 16, 2:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Winona | 85 min |
| Aug 17, 6:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cottonwood, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson, Martin, Nobles and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 18, 1:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles and 2 more | 85 min |
| Aug 21, 5:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Stevens and 2 more | 84 min |
| Aug 21, 8:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, Pipestone, Yellow Medicine | 96 min |
| Aug 22, 11:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chisago, Kanabec, Pine | 113 min |
| Aug 27, 2:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Faribault, Jackson and 15 more | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lyon County9
- Lincoln County8
- Nobles County8
- Pipestone County8
- Cottonwood County8
- Nicollet County8
- Anoka County7
- Hennepin County7
- Lac qui Parle County7
- Le Sueur County7
- Renville County7
- Sibley County7
- Watonwan County7
- Yellow Medicine County7
- Blue Earth County7
- Rock County6
- Brown County6
- Carver County6
- Dakota County6
- Kanabec County6
- McLeod County6
- Meeker County6
- Murray County6
- Pine County6
- Ramsey County6
- Scott County6
- Stearns County6
- Jackson County6
- Martin County6
- Douglas County5
- Benton County5
- Chippewa County5
- Chisago County5
- Isanti County5
- Kandiyohi County5
- Pope County5
- Redwood County5
- Sherburne County5
- Stevens County5
- Swift County5
47 more counties
- Washington County5
- Wright County5
- Faribault County5
- Mower County5
- Waseca County5
- Houston County5
- Winona County5
- Kittson County4
- Cass County4
- Grant County4
- Hubbard County4
- Otter Tail County4
- Traverse County4
- Wadena County4
- Wilkin County4
- Mille Lacs County4
- Goodhue County4
- Rice County4
- Steele County4
- Fillmore County4
- Olmsted County4
- Big Stone County4
- Becker County3
- Lake of the Woods County3
- Mahnomen County3
- Marshall County3
- Norman County3
- Pennington County3
- Polk County3
- Red Lake County3
- Roseau County3
- Todd County3
- Aitkin County3
- Carlton County3
- Crow Wing County3
- Itasca County3
- Morrison County3
- Saint Louis County3
- Dodge County3
- Freeborn County3
- Wabasha County3
- Beltrami County2
- Clay County2
- Clearwater County2
- Koochiching County2
- Cook County1
- Lake County1
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Sources
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