Alert archive / Kentucky / Mesoscale Discussions / 2018
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, August 2018
6 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
- 6
- Busiest day
- August 20, 20182 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, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 4:16 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Daviess and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 1:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 11 more | 113 min |
| Aug 15, 3:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Carlisle, Crittenden, Henderson, Hopkins and 7 more | 115 min |
| Aug 20, 12:46 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken | 119 min |
| Aug 20, 5:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard | 2 hr |
| Aug 25, 6:46 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Gallatin | 89 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ballard County5
- Carlisle County4
- McCracken County4
- Caldwell County3
- Crittenden County3
- Fulton County3
- Graves County3
- Hickman County3
- Hopkins County3
- Livingston County3
- Lyon County3
- Marshall County3
- Union County3
- Webster County3
- Calloway County2
- Henderson County2
- McLean County2
- Daviess County1
- Christian County1
- Trigg County1
- Boone County1
- Carroll County1
- Gallatin 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.