Alert archive / North Dakota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2018
Mesoscale Discussions in North Dakota, May 2018
11 mesoscale discussions in May 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 17, 20183 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 7, 7:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Emmons, McIntosh | 118 min |
| May 8, 2:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Sargent | 2 hr |
| May 17, 1:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bowman, Hettinger, Slope | 92 min |
| May 17, 3:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dickey, Emmons, McIntosh | 28 min |
| May 17, 5:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bowman, Dickey, Emmons, Grant, McIntosh and 1 more | 66 min |
| May 22, 5:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bowman, Grant, Hettinger, Morton, Sioux and 2 more | 2 hr |
| May 24, 2:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barnes, Dickey, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh, Ransom and 2 more | 2 hr |
| May 26, 5:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Hettinger and 3 more | 119 min |
| May 26, 10:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Hettinger and 3 more | 2 hr |
| May 27, 1:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Grant and 7 more | 3 hr |
| May 31, 2:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Grant and 10 more | 118 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adams County7
- Bowman County7
- Hettinger County6
- Slope County6
- Stark County5
- McIntosh County4
- Grant County4
- Billings County4
- Dunn County4
- Golden Valley County4
- McKenzie County4
- Emmons County3
- Dickey County3
- Morton County3
- Sargent County2
- Sioux County2
- Mercer County2
- Oliver County2
- Barnes County1
- LaMoure County1
- Logan County1
- Ransom County1
- Stutsman County1
- McLean County1
- Mountrail County1
- Ward 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.