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Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, March 2017
20 mesoscale discussions in March 2017. 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 March 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 20
- Busiest day
- March 1, 20176 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 4:19 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lauderdale | 56 min |
| Mar 1, 5:28 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lauderdale | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:08 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 2:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 2:43 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Chambers, Chilton, Clay, Coosa, Elmore and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:54 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chambers, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 7, 1:40 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Choctaw, Cullman, Fayette and 12 more | 65 min |
| Mar 9, 6:39 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fayette, Greene, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Sumter | 96 min |
| Mar 9, 10:42 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah and 10 more | 63 min |
| Mar 10, 12:50 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah and 12 more | 85 min |
| Mar 10, 3:09 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chambers, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Randolph, Shelby and 3 more | 96 min |
| Mar 21, 1:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Colbert, DeKalb, Etowah and 7 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 21, 4:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson | 90 min |
| Mar 25, 12:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Chilton, Clarke, Dallas, Mobile, Monroe and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Coosa and 19 more | 56 min |
| Mar 27, 3:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay and 26 more | 87 min |
| Mar 27, 5:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lauderdale | 91 min |
| Mar 30, 11:10 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile | 65 min |
| Mar 30, 1:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Clarke, Coffee and 15 more | 61 min |
| Mar 30, 4:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Geneva | 87 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blount County7
- Cherokee County7
- Cullman County7
- DeKalb County7
- Etowah County7
- Fayette County7
- Jackson County7
- Marshall County7
- Lauderdale County6
- Lawrence County6
- Limestone County6
- Madison County6
- Morgan County6
- Pickens County6
- Tuscaloosa County6
- Walker County6
- Chilton County6
- Calhoun County5
- Jefferson County5
- Marion County5
- St. Clair County5
- Winston County5
- Bibb County5
- Talladega County5
- Colbert County4
- Franklin County4
- Greene County4
- Lamar County4
- Clay County4
- Coosa County4
- Cleburne County4
- Hale County4
- Perry County4
- Shelby County4
- Autauga County3
- Chambers County3
- Elmore County3
- Randolph County3
- Tallapoosa County3
- Clarke County3
24 more counties
- Dallas County3
- Wilcox County3
- Sumter County3
- Lee County2
- Choctaw County2
- Lowndes County2
- Macon County2
- Marengo County2
- Montgomery County2
- Mobile County2
- Monroe County2
- Geneva County2
- Baldwin County1
- Barbour County1
- Bullock County1
- Butler County1
- Coffee County1
- Conecuh County1
- Covington County1
- Crenshaw County1
- Dale County1
- Escambia County1
- Pike County1
- Russell 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.