Alert archive / Alabama / Mesoscale Discussions / 2008

Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, December 2008

11 mesoscale discussions in December 2008. 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 December 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
11
Busiest day
December 10, 20088 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 9, 5:52 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLamar, Marion83 min
Dec 9, 6:15 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClarke, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe, Washington90 min
Dec 9, 9:51 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Butler, Chilton, Coosa, Crenshaw, Elmore and 4 more54 min
Dec 9, 11:42 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlount, Chilton, Coosa, Cullman, Jefferson, Marshall and 3 more63 min
Dec 10, 1:25 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 42 more65 min
Dec 10, 3:31 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun and 31 more59 min
Dec 10, 5:29 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 31 more61 min
Dec 10, 10:45 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Bullock, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva and 5 more2 hr
Dec 10, 1:08 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHouston67 min
Dec 24, 3:20 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Bibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas and 7 more85 min
Dec 24, 5:21 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers and 28 more84 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

17 more counties

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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.