Alert archive / Kentucky / Mesoscale Discussions / 2020
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, May 2020
13 mesoscale discussions in May 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 13
- Busiest day
- May 3, 20203 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 1:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian and 13 more | 85 min |
| May 3, 4:08 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Barren, Bell, Christian, Clinton, Cumberland and 12 more | 67 min |
| May 3, 6:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bath, Bell, Bourbon and 63 more | 55 min |
| May 4, 3:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 118 min |
| May 4, 7:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calloway, Fulton, Hickman | 54 min |
| May 10, 12:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Bracken, Bullitt and 24 more | 2 hr |
| May 10, 6:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Carter, Clark and 22 more | 24 min |
| May 16, 4:38 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Henderson, Union, Webster | 3 hr |
| May 17, 7:29 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Henderson, Union | 91 min |
| May 18, 1:46 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken, Breathitt and 42 more | 119 min |
| May 18, 4:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken, Breathitt, Campbell and 41 more | 88 min |
| May 18, 7:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Breathitt, Carter, Clark and 28 more | 115 min |
| May 23, 4:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Fleming, Gallatin and 10 more | 61 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fleming County7
- Lewis County7
- Mason County7
- Nicholas County7
- Bath County6
- Bourbon County6
- Robertson County6
- Carter County5
- Clark County5
- Elliott County5
- Estill County5
- Fayette County5
- Greenup County5
- Madison County5
- Menifee County5
- Montgomery County5
- Morgan County5
- Powell County5
- Rowan County5
- Wolfe County5
- Bracken County5
- Harrison County5
- Knox County4
- Breathitt County4
- Clay County4
- Jackson County4
- Laurel County4
- Lee County4
- Magoffin County4
- Owsley County4
- Pulaski County4
- Rockcastle County4
- Woodford County4
- Campbell County4
- Grant County4
- Kenton County4
- Pendleton County4
- Scott County4
- Calloway County3
- Fulton County3
72 more counties
- Hickman County3
- Logan County3
- Bell County3
- McCreary County3
- Russell County3
- Whitley County3
- Boyle County3
- Casey County3
- Garrard County3
- Jessamine County3
- Leslie County3
- Lincoln County3
- Mercer County3
- Perry County3
- Owen County3
- Carlisle County2
- Christian County2
- Graves County2
- Todd County2
- Trigg County2
- Allen County2
- Barren County2
- Clinton County2
- Cumberland County2
- Metcalfe County2
- Monroe County2
- Simpson County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Boyd County2
- Johnson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Marion County2
- Martin County2
- Taylor County2
- Washington County2
- Anderson County2
- Boone County2
- Carroll County2
- Franklin County2
- Gallatin County2
- Trimble County2
- Henderson County2
- Union County2
- Ballard County1
- Butler County1
- Caldwell County1
- Crittenden County1
- Hopkins County1
- Livingston County1
- Lyon County1
- McCracken County1
- Marshall County1
- Muhlenberg County1
- Adair County1
- Edmonson County1
- Floyd County1
- Green County1
- Harlan County1
- Hart County1
- Knott County1
- Larue County1
- Letcher County1
- Pike County1
- Bullitt County1
- Henry County1
- Jefferson County1
- Meade County1
- Oldham County1
- Shelby County1
- Spencer County1
- Webster 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.