Alert archive / Kentucky / Mesoscale Discussions / 2021
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, May 2021
9 mesoscale discussions in May 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20213 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, 2:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd | 118 min |
| May 4, 2:06 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 13 more | 114 min |
| May 4, 2:17 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Christian, Clinton and 19 more | 118 min |
| May 4, 5:17 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Ballard, Barren, Butler, Caldwell and 25 more | 88 min |
| May 6, 11:05 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton and 9 more | 85 min |
| May 6, 1:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves and 6 more | 118 min |
| May 6, 3:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman | 90 min |
| May 9, 4:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Clinton, Cumberland, McCreary, Monroe, Russell and 1 more | 2 hr |
| May 27, 6:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 24 more | 114 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ballard County5
- Calloway County5
- Carlisle County5
- Crittenden County5
- Fulton County5
- Graves County5
- Hickman County5
- Livingston County5
- Lyon County5
- McCracken County5
- Marshall County5
- Trigg County5
- Caldwell County4
- Christian County4
- Hopkins County4
- McLean County4
- Union County3
- Webster County3
- Allen County3
- Butler County3
- Cumberland County3
- Grayson County3
- Logan County3
- Monroe County3
- Muhlenberg County3
- Ohio County3
- Russell County3
- Todd County3
- Henderson County2
- Adair County2
- Barren County2
- Clinton County2
- Daviess County2
- Edmonson County2
- Green County2
- Hart County2
- McCreary County2
- Metcalfe County2
- Simpson County2
- Warren 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. Rebuilt daily.