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Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, May 2026

20 mesoscale discussions in May 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
20
Busiest day
May 7, 20267 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
May 6, 12:54 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColbert, Lauderdale2 hr
May 6, 11:57 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChoctaw, Clarke, Greene, Marengo, Mobile, Sumter and 1 more3 hr
May 6, 3:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChoctaw, Washington2 hr
May 6, 4:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 37 more113 min
May 6, 4:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee, DeKalb, Jackson2 hr
May 6, 7:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCWashington59 min
May 6, 8:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChambers, Cleburne, Randolph, Russell60 min
May 6, 8:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 20 more2 hr
May 6, 10:04 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 14 more56 min
May 7, 1:38 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaldwin, Barbour, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 10 more97 min
May 7, 4:20 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 8 more115 min
May 7, 7:04 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaldwin, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Escambia, Geneva and 2 more86 min
May 8, 2:30 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGeneva3 hr
May 10, 5:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCSumter85 min
May 22, 9:00 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaldwin, Bibb, Choctaw, Clarke, Colbert, Cullman and 22 more2 hr
May 22, 12:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBibb, Blount, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah and 18 more2 hr
May 24, 12:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCalhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, DeKalb and 4 more2 hr
May 25, 6:42 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCWashington2 hr
May 25, 12:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Clay, Cleburne and 14 more2 hr
May 25, 5:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Houston115 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.