Alert archive / Alabama / Mesoscale Discussions / 2012
Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, January 2012
18 mesoscale discussions in January 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 January 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 18
- Busiest day
- January 21, 20127 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 11:39 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Crenshaw, Dale and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 20, 10:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Lauderdale, Limestone | 88 min |
| Jan 21, 1:52 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 31 more | 113 min |
| Jan 21, 4:20 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 35 more | 55 min |
| Jan 21, 7:22 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers and 32 more | 83 min |
| Jan 21, 10:01 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 25 more | 59 min |
| Jan 21, 1:57 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Clay, Henry, Lee and 4 more | 63 min |
| Jan 21, 4:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Henry | 57 min |
| Jan 22, 9:47 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale, Marion | 58 min |
| Jan 23, 1:25 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 31 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 23, 4:02 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers and 32 more | 118 min |
| Jan 23, 6:38 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 27 more | 97 min |
| Jan 23, 11:30 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Crenshaw, Pike, Russell | 2 hr |
| Jan 26, 2:05 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mobile, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jan 26, 7:29 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile and 3 more | 91 min |
| Jan 26, 9:34 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 24 more | 86 min |
| Jan 26, 2:16 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Dale, Henry, Houston, Lee, Russell | 119 min |
| Jan 26, 5:35 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence and 5 more | 55 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chambers County9
- Lee County9
- Tallapoosa County9
- Elmore County8
- Autauga County8
- Chilton County8
- Clay County8
- Coosa County8
- Randolph County8
- Talladega County8
- Barbour County7
- Bullock County7
- Macon County7
- Russell County7
- Calhoun County7
- Cleburne County7
- Dallas County7
- Montgomery County6
- Colbert County6
- Bibb County6
- Lamar County6
- Perry County6
- Shelby County6
- Crenshaw County5
- Pike County5
- Lauderdale County5
- Blount County5
- Cherokee County5
- Cullman County5
- DeKalb County5
- Etowah County5
- Fayette County5
- Franklin County5
- Jefferson County5
- Marion County5
- Marshall County5
- Pickens County5
- St. Clair County5
- Tuscaloosa County5
- Walker County5
27 more counties
- Greene County5
- Hale County5
- Sumter County5
- Lowndes County5
- Wilcox County5
- Coffee County4
- Dale County4
- Henry County4
- Limestone County4
- Jackson County4
- Lawrence County4
- Winston County4
- Marengo County4
- Butler County4
- Choctaw County4
- Clarke County4
- Monroe County4
- Washington County4
- Madison County3
- Morgan County3
- Baldwin County3
- Conecuh County3
- Escambia County3
- Mobile County3
- Geneva County2
- Houston County2
- Covington County2
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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.