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Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, August 2023

32 mesoscale discussions in August 2023. 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 August 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
32
Busiest day
August 3, 20235 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
Aug 3, 7:16 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlount, Colbert, Cullman, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence and 7 more2 hr
Aug 3, 12:50 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton and 23 more115 min
Aug 3, 3:24 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 25 more2 hr
Aug 3, 5:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChoctaw, Sumter117 min
Aug 3, 6:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Bullock, Lee, Macon, Russell117 min
Aug 4, 5:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCoffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston114 min
Aug 5, 5:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColbert, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 3 more118 min
Aug 6, 11:49 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 30 more116 min
Aug 6, 2:57 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Cullman and 11 more93 min
Aug 7, 9:33 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlount, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah and 10 more117 min
Aug 7, 1:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 25 more2 hr
Aug 7, 3:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 8 more118 min
Aug 8, 7:40 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCSumter2 hr
Aug 8, 1:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 27 more89 min
Aug 8, 3:19 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 2 more86 min
Aug 9, 11:22 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColbert, Cullman, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence and 6 more113 min
Aug 9, 3:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Bibb, Bullock, Chilton, Coosa, Crenshaw and 7 more59 min
Aug 9, 3:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb and 12 more2 hr
Aug 9, 6:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Cullman and 9 more115 min
Aug 9, 9:33 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChambers, Clay, Coosa, Lee, Randolph, Talladega and 1 more117 min
Aug 10, 12:59 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson and 8 more91 min
Aug 11, 11:54 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw and 11 more2 hr
Aug 11, 3:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Elmore, Henry and 5 more2 hr
Aug 12, 9:39 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Colbert and 20 more2 hr
Aug 12, 12:57 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah, Jackson, Lawrence and 4 more2 hr
Aug 12, 5:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Dale, Henry, Houston, Russell2 hr
Aug 13, 11:53 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLauderdale2 hr
Aug 13, 4:49 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Colbert and 17 more56 min
Aug 14, 5:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Limestone2 hr
Aug 15, 12:50 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChambers, Randolph85 min
Aug 15, 3:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLee, Macon, Russell93 min
Aug 15, 4:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDale, Geneva, Henry, Houston114 min

By county

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

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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.