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Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, August 2018
14 mesoscale discussions in August 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 14
- Busiest day
- August 20, 20184 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 3:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Independence and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 12:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Craighead, Fulton, Greene, Izard and 5 more | 113 min |
| Aug 10, 4:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Washington | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 5:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Fulton, Marion | 83 min |
| Aug 17, 9:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cleburne, Conway, Crawford, Faulkner, Franklin, Johnson and 11 more | 97 min |
| Aug 17, 3:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland, Desha and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford, Faulkner and 13 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 5:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway, Franklin and 13 more | 118 min |
| Aug 20, 11:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene and 16 more | 119 min |
| Aug 20, 3:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 4:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 20, 5:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 63 min |
| Aug 29, 2:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crawford, Crittenden and 34 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 30, 8:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll | 115 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Sharp County6
- Clay County5
- Craighead County5
- Greene County5
- Independence County5
- Lawrence County5
- Mississippi County5
- Carroll County5
- Crittenden County4
- Cross County4
- Jackson County4
- Lee County4
- Poinsett County4
- Randolph County4
- St. Francis County4
- White County4
- Woodruff County4
- Marion County4
- Benton County4
- Washington County4
- Cleburne County4
- Conway County4
- Franklin County4
- Johnson County4
- Logan County4
- Madison County4
- Newton County4
- Pope County4
- Searcy County4
- Van Buren County4
- Baxter County3
- Fulton County3
- Boone County3
- Crawford County3
- Faulkner County3
- Perry County3
- Yell County3
- Ashley County3
- Chicot County3
- Lonoke County3
21 more counties
- Monroe County3
- Phillips County3
- Prairie County3
- Izard County2
- Sebastian County2
- Stone County2
- Jefferson County2
- Pulaski County2
- Scott County1
- Bradley County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cleveland County1
- Desha County1
- Drew County1
- Lincoln County1
- Ouachita County1
- Union County1
- Arkansas County1
- Garland County1
- Grant County1
- Saline 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.