Alert archive / Alabama / Mesoscale Discussions / 2012
Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, May 2012
12 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
- 12
- Busiest day
- May 6, 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 2, 2:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile | 62 min |
| May 6, 12:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee and 17 more | 86 min |
| May 6, 1:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Sumter | 2 hr |
| May 6, 4:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin | 64 min |
| May 9, 11:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 2 hr |
| May 12, 10:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Mobile, Washington | 2 hr |
| May 12, 5:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 10 more | 89 min |
| May 13, 2:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Elmore, Lee, Macon and 2 more | 2 hr |
| May 21, 2:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 3 more | 90 min |
| May 31, 2:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lamar | 67 min |
| May 31, 5:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 18 more | 84 min |
| May 31, 5:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Butler County4
- Choctaw County4
- Clarke County4
- Conecuh County4
- Covington County4
- Escambia County4
- Monroe County4
- Baldwin County3
- Mobile County3
- Coffee County3
- Crenshaw County3
- Geneva County3
- Houston County3
- Marengo County3
- Sumter County3
- Wilcox County3
- Washington County3
- Barbour County2
- Bullock County2
- Dale County2
- Dallas County2
- Greene County2
- Lowndes County2
- Pike County2
- Russell County2
- Henry County1
- Chambers County1
- Elmore County1
- Lee County1
- Macon County1
- Tallapoosa County1
- Lamar County1
- Autauga County1
- Bibb County1
- Chilton County1
- Hale County1
- Jefferson County1
- Perry County1
- Pickens County1
- Tuscaloosa 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.