Alert archive / Arkansas / Mesoscale Discussions / 2017
Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, May 2017
28 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
- 28
- Busiest day
- May 28, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 4:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Washington | 96 min |
| May 3, 7:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Pike and 2 more | 117 min |
| May 3, 1:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hempstead, Little River, Miller | 87 min |
| May 3, 3:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lafayette, Miller | 91 min |
| May 11, 1:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Sevier | 2 hr |
| May 11, 2:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 34 more | 116 min |
| May 11, 5:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Carroll and 56 more | 56 min |
| May 11, 6:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Washington | 83 min |
| May 12, 10:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 20 more | 3 hr |
| May 18, 9:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Logan, Madison and 3 more | 94 min |
| May 18, 11:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Washington | 57 min |
| May 19, 2:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 9 more | 92 min |
| May 19, 5:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross and 18 more | 117 min |
| May 19, 6:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 2 hr |
| May 19, 9:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 22 more | 59 min |
| May 19, 11:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford, Franklin and 18 more | 114 min |
| May 20, 1:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Fulton, Greene, Independence and 7 more | 90 min |
| May 26, 10:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Madison, Washington | 54 min |
| May 27, 2:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Fulton, Independence and 10 more | 116 min |
| May 27, 3:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clay, Craighead, Fulton, Greene and 7 more | 2 hr |
| May 27, 6:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Mississippi and 1 more | 2 hr |
| May 27, 6:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Craighead, Fulton, Greene and 12 more | 58 min |
| May 27, 9:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Independence and 8 more | 94 min |
| May 27, 11:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Sebastian, Washington | 58 min |
| May 28, 12:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Howard, Montgomery, Polk | 23 min |
| May 28, 2:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha, Faulkner and 12 more | 2 hr |
| May 28, 2:53 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 6 more | 2 hr |
| May 28, 4:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland, Columbia and 9 more | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Washington County12
- Benton County10
- Izard County10
- Madison County10
- Stone County10
- Boone County9
- Carroll County9
- Crawford County9
- Fulton County9
- Sharp County9
- Baxter County8
- Marion County8
- Sebastian County8
- Polk County7
- Franklin County7
- Independence County7
- Newton County7
- Searcy County7
- Craighead County7
- Greene County7
- Lawrence County7
- Randolph County7
- Howard County6
- Miller County6
- Cleburne County6
- Faulkner County6
- Jackson County6
- Clay County6
- Poinsett County6
- Hempstead County5
- Lafayette County5
- Johnson County5
- Logan County5
- Lonoke County5
- Montgomery County5
- Perry County5
- Scott County5
- Van Buren County5
- Little River County4
- Clark County4
35 more counties
- Conway County4
- Grant County4
- Hot Spring County4
- Pope County4
- Pulaski County4
- Saline County4
- White County4
- Yell County4
- Arkansas County4
- Cleveland County4
- Cross County4
- Dallas County4
- Desha County4
- Lincoln County4
- Monroe County4
- Nevada County4
- Ouachita County4
- Phillips County4
- Prairie County4
- Mississippi County4
- Pike County3
- Sevier County3
- Garland County3
- Bradley County3
- Calhoun County3
- Drew County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lee County3
- St. Francis County3
- Union County3
- Crittenden County3
- Woodruff County2
- Ashley County2
- Chicot County2
- Columbia County2
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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.