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Mesoscale Discussions in Arkansas, May 2018
23 mesoscale discussions in May 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 May 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 23
- Busiest day
- May 3, 20186 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 2, 10:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 6 more | 115 min |
| May 3, 2:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Franklin, Fulton, Izard and 6 more | 88 min |
| May 3, 9:02 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian, Washington | 88 min |
| May 3, 12:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Clark, Conway, Crawford, Franklin and 22 more | 85 min |
| May 3, 3:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland, Craighead and 25 more | 60 min |
| May 3, 4:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway and 31 more | 53 min |
| May 4, 3:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian | 2 hr |
| May 6, 3:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne and 25 more | 3 hr |
| May 14, 11:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton | 90 min |
| May 16, 11:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Columbia, Conway and 32 more | 2 hr |
| May 19, 11:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay | 2 hr |
| May 19, 3:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Greene, Randolph | 85 min |
| May 19, 6:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi, Randolph | 61 min |
| May 20, 1:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Polk, Scott, Sebastian | 2 hr |
| May 20, 11:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Independence and 11 more | 3 hr |
| May 20, 3:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee and 4 more | 118 min |
| May 20, 6:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll | 95 min |
| May 20, 6:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 8 more | 64 min |
| May 26, 11:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 3 hr |
| May 31, 2:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 3 more | 61 min |
| May 31, 12:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Fulton and 4 more | 96 min |
| May 31, 4:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Randolph | 2 hr |
| May 31, 5:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Fulton, Greene, Independence and 8 more | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County11
- Greene County9
- Carroll County8
- Randolph County8
- Benton County7
- Boone County7
- Franklin County7
- Fulton County7
- Craighead County7
- Crawford County6
- Marion County6
- Newton County6
- Searcy County6
- Washington County6
- Izard County6
- Sharp County6
- Jackson County6
- Lawrence County6
- Poinsett County6
- Mississippi County6
- Baxter County5
- Madison County5
- Johnson County5
- Stone County5
- Sebastian County5
- Cross County5
- Independence County5
- St. Francis County5
- Woodruff County5
- Clark County4
- Garland County4
- Hot Spring County4
- Pike County4
- Pope County4
- Cleburne County4
- White County4
- Crittenden County4
- Conway County3
- Howard County3
- Montgomery County3
29 more counties
- Perry County3
- Polk County3
- Scott County3
- Sevier County3
- Yell County3
- Dallas County3
- Grant County3
- Monroe County3
- Prairie County3
- Pulaski County3
- Saline County3
- Van Buren County3
- Lee County3
- Phillips County3
- Hempstead County2
- Little River County2
- Logan County2
- Miller County2
- Arkansas County2
- Cleveland County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lonoke County2
- Faulkner County2
- Columbia County1
- Lafayette County1
- Nevada County1
- Ouachita County1
- Ashley County1
- Chicot 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.