Alert archive / Minnesota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2026
Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, May 2026
17 mesoscale discussions in May 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 17
- Busiest day
- May 18, 20264 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, 3:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Mower | 2 hr |
| May 15, 7:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Jackson and 7 more | 2 hr |
| May 15, 9:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 113 min |
| May 17, 1:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 2 hr |
| May 17, 3:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Nobles, Pipestone, Rock | 89 min |
| May 17, 5:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Mower and 3 more | 60 min |
| May 17, 7:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Martin, Mower and 3 more | 56 min |
| May 17, 9:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Faribault, Freeborn, Mower, Steele, Waseca | 90 min |
| May 17, 10:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower | 118 min |
| May 18, 5:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Murray, Nobles, Rock | 95 min |
| May 24, 3:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cottonwood, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone and 4 more | 86 min |
| May 24, 6:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson and 18 more | 116 min |
| May 24, 8:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Jackson, Le Sueur, Lincoln and 12 more | 87 min |
| May 25, 3:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis | 116 min |
| May 25, 7:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cottonwood, Faribault, Jackson, Martin, Nobles, Rock and 1 more | 92 min |
| May 26, 3:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Benton, Cass, Clay, Crow Wing and 11 more | 2 hr |
| May 31, 3:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Rock | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Nobles County8
- Rock County8
- Faribault County6
- Freeborn County6
- Martin County6
- Mower County6
- Waseca County5
- Murray County5
- Pipestone County5
- Watonwan County5
- Jackson County4
- Steele County4
- Blue Earth County4
- Cottonwood County4
- Houston County3
- Brown County3
- Lincoln County3
- Lyon County3
- Redwood County3
- Renville County3
- Dodge County2
- Fillmore County2
- Yellow Medicine County2
- McLeod County2
- Nicollet County2
- Sibley County2
- Olmsted County1
- Winona County1
- Carver County1
- Chippewa County1
- Kandiyohi County1
- Lac qui Parle County1
- Meeker County1
- Swift County1
- Le Sueur County1
- Itasca County1
- Koochiching County1
- Lake County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Aitkin 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.