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Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, May 2025
6 mesoscale discussions in May 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 May 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 15, 20256 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 15, 1:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 97 min |
| May 15, 4:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi and 16 more | 86 min |
| May 15, 7:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Dakota and 28 more | 97 min |
| May 15, 12:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 31 more | 3 hr |
| May 15, 1:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin, Ramsey and 3 more | 63 min |
| May 15, 3:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ramsey, Washington | 90 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lincoln County3
- Lyon County3
- Murray County3
- Nobles County3
- Chippewa County3
- Kandiyohi County3
- McLeod County3
- Meeker County3
- Nicollet County3
- Renville County3
- Sibley County3
- Swift County3
- Carver County3
- Dakota County3
- Hennepin County3
- Rice County3
- Scott County3
- Ramsey County3
- Washington County3
- Pipestone County2
- Rock County2
- Brown County2
- Cottonwood County2
- Jackson County2
- Lac qui Parle County2
- Martin County2
- Redwood County2
- Watonwan County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- Blue Earth County2
- Le Sueur County2
- Steele County2
- Waseca County2
- Wright County2
- Anoka County2
- Goodhue County2
- Big Stone County1
- Stevens County1
- Faribault County1
- Freeborn 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.