Alert archive / North Dakota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2012
Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, May 2012
8 mesoscale discussions in May 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 22, 20123 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 1, 6:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson, Steele, Traill | 2 hr |
| May 2, 7:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cass, Dickey, Emmons, Grant, LaMoure, Logan and 6 more | 55 min |
| May 10, 4:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benson, Burleigh, Grant, McHenry, McLean, Morton and 7 more | 87 min |
| May 22, 3:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benson, Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Dunn, Eddy and 20 more | 91 min |
| May 22, 6:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Hettinger, Slope, Stark | 94 min |
| May 22, 6:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benson, Bottineau, Burleigh, Eddy, Foster, Kidder and 9 more | 96 min |
| May 22, 8:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Dickey, Grand Forks, Griggs, LaMoure and 6 more | 64 min |
| May 26, 11:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Ransom, Richland, Sargent | 93 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cass County3
- Grant County3
- Morton County3
- Ransom County3
- Richland County3
- Sargent County3
- Benson County3
- Burleigh County3
- McHenry County3
- Pierce County3
- Rolette County3
- Sheridan County3
- Wells County3
- Grand Forks County2
- Griggs County2
- Nelson County2
- Steele County2
- Traill County2
- Dickey County2
- Emmons County2
- LaMoure County2
- Logan County2
- Sioux County2
- McLean County2
- Oliver County2
- Towner County2
- Bottineau County2
- Eddy County2
- Foster County2
- Kidder County2
- Ramsey County2
- Renville County2
- Ward County2
- Barnes County2
- McIntosh County1
- Burke County1
- Dunn County1
- Mercer County1
- Mountrail County1
- Stutsman 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.