Alert archive / Alabama / Mesoscale Discussions / 2017
Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, May 2017
15 mesoscale discussions in May 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 May 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 15
- Busiest day
- May 12, 20174 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 1, 2:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh and 9 more | 2 hr |
| May 1, 7:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston, Russell | 2 hr |
| May 12, 9:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Washington | 3 hr |
| May 12, 10:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay and 16 more | 3 hr |
| May 12, 1:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Cullman and 7 more | 2 hr |
| May 12, 1:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 8 more | 108 min |
| May 20, 2:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Choctaw, Clarke, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette and 19 more | 93 min |
| May 23, 8:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 2 hr |
| May 23, 11:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 83 min |
| May 23, 7:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chambers, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Randolph and 1 more | 93 min |
| May 24, 6:41 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, DeKalb, Etowah and 6 more | 3 hr |
| May 27, 9:13 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Limestone | 92 min |
| May 27, 11:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Calhoun, Clay, Cleburne, Fayette, Jefferson and 8 more | 59 min |
| May 28, 2:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 23 more | 2 hr |
| May 28, 10:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Covington, Escambia, Geneva, Mobile | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cleburne County6
- Geneva County5
- Calhoun County5
- Clay County5
- Jefferson County5
- Randolph County5
- St. Clair County5
- Shelby County5
- Talladega County5
- Covington County4
- Dale County4
- Houston County4
- Bibb County4
- Blount County4
- Cherokee County4
- Cullman County4
- DeKalb County4
- Etowah County4
- Marshall County4
- Tuscaloosa County4
- Baldwin County3
- Barbour County3
- Coffee County3
- Escambia County3
- Henry County3
- Jackson County3
- Morgan County3
- Fayette County3
- Lamar County3
- Limestone County3
- Pickens County3
- Walker County3
- Butler County2
- Conecuh County2
- Crenshaw County2
- Pike County2
- Washington County2
- Chilton County2
- Coosa County2
- Madison County2
21 more counties
- Tallapoosa County2
- Mobile County2
- Colbert County2
- Franklin County2
- Lauderdale County2
- Lawrence County2
- Marion County2
- Winston County2
- Bullock County1
- Lowndes County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Russell County1
- Choctaw County1
- Clarke County1
- Greene County1
- Hale County1
- Marengo County1
- Perry County1
- Sumter County1
- Chambers 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.