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Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, August 2020
16 mesoscale discussions in August 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 August 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 16
- Busiest day
- August 28, 20206 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 2, 1:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cocke, Johnson, Unicoi, Washington | 57 min |
| Aug 5, 12:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi and 1 more | 113 min |
| Aug 10, 1:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cannon and 32 more | 118 min |
| Aug 11, 12:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crockett, Fayette, Haywood, Lauderdale, Madison, Shelby and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Shelby | 94 min |
| Aug 27, 5:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 115 min |
| Aug 27, 8:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dyer, Fayette, Lake, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 2 hr |
| Aug 28, 6:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson and 6 more | 88 min |
| Aug 28, 10:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Dickson, Hardin, Hickman, Humphreys, Lawrence and 5 more | 96 min |
| Aug 28, 1:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Lincoln, Macon and 6 more | 65 min |
| Aug 28, 5:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Grundy, Hamilton, Lincoln, Marion, Moore | 116 min |
| Aug 28, 6:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Johnson | 2 hr |
| Aug 29, 3:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Clay and 37 more | 113 min |
| Aug 29, 3:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fayette, Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 88 min |
| Aug 30, 3:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Bledsoe, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay and 42 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 12:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 16 more | 89 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Shelby County6
- Fayette County5
- Lauderdale County5
- Tipton County5
- Bedford County4
- Cannon County4
- Coffee County4
- DeKalb County4
- Grundy County4
- Lincoln County4
- Maury County4
- Moore County4
- Rutherford County4
- Smith County4
- Williamson County4
- Wilson County4
- Dyer County4
- Decatur County4
- Humphreys County4
- Perry County4
- Johnson County3
- Franklin County3
- Jackson County3
- Lawrence County3
- Marion County3
- Marshall County3
- Overton County3
- Putnam County3
- Van Buren County3
- Warren County3
- White County3
- Crockett County3
- Haywood County3
- Madison County3
- Lake County3
- Carroll County3
- Gibson County3
- Obion County3
- Weakley County3
- Dickson County3
43 more counties
- Hardin County3
- Hickman County3
- Lewis County3
- Macon County3
- Sumner County3
- Trousdale County3
- Benton County3
- Henderson County3
- Carter County2
- Cocke County2
- Unicoi County2
- Washington County2
- Bledsoe County2
- Cumberland County2
- Giles County2
- Hamilton County2
- Sequatchie County2
- Chester County2
- Hardeman County2
- McNairy County2
- Wayne County2
- Cheatham County2
- Clay County2
- Davidson County2
- Henry County2
- Houston County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pickett County2
- Robertson County2
- Stewart County2
- Greene County1
- Sullivan County1
- Anderson County1
- Blount County1
- Bradley County1
- Loudon County1
- McMinn County1
- Meigs County1
- Monroe County1
- Morgan County1
- Polk County1
- Rhea County1
- Roane 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.