Alert archive / Tennessee / Mesoscale Discussions / 2020
Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 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, 20204 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 3, 12:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Henry and 8 more | 85 min |
| May 3, 3:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Benton, Bledsoe, Campbell, Cannon and 61 more | 67 min |
| May 3, 5:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Macon, Pickett, Sumner, Trousdale | 55 min |
| May 3, 6:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Bledsoe, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham and 54 more | 57 min |
| May 4, 2:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 35 more | 118 min |
| May 4, 3:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Haywood, Lake, Lauderdale and 2 more | 61 min |
| May 4, 6:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Bradley, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham and 40 more | 54 min |
| May 4, 8:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Bledsoe, Bradley, Cannon, Chester, Coffee and 29 more | 89 min |
| May 4, 11:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bradley, Hamilton, Polk | 97 min |
| May 5, 2:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Bradley, Cocke, Greene, McMinn, Monroe and 3 more | 113 min |
| May 22, 4:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman and 12 more | 91 min |
| May 24, 12:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Johnson | 2 hr |
| May 28, 12:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Chester, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin and 7 more | 87 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chester County7
- Decatur County7
- Hardin County7
- Henderson County7
- Wayne County7
- Crockett County6
- Humphreys County6
- Lawrence County6
- Lewis County6
- Madison County6
- Perry County6
- Benton County5
- Carroll County5
- Gibson County5
- Houston County5
- Lauderdale County5
- Stewart County5
- Bedford County5
- Cannon County5
- Coffee County5
- Giles County5
- Hamilton County5
- Hardeman County5
- Hickman County5
- Lincoln County5
- McNairy County5
- Marshall County5
- Maury County5
- Moore County5
- Rutherford County5
- Warren County5
- Williamson County5
- Haywood County5
- Tipton County5
- Dyer County4
- Henry County4
- Lake County4
- Weakley County4
- Cheatham County4
- DeKalb County4
49 more counties
- Dickson County4
- Fayette County4
- Franklin County4
- Grundy County4
- Marion County4
- Sequatchie County4
- Bradley County4
- Montgomery County3
- Obion County3
- Bledsoe County3
- Clay County3
- Davidson County3
- McMinn County3
- Macon County3
- Meigs County3
- Pickett County3
- Rhea County3
- Sumner County3
- Trousdale County3
- Van Buren County3
- Wilson County3
- Shelby County3
- Polk County3
- Cumberland County2
- Fentress County2
- Jackson County2
- Overton County2
- Putnam County2
- Robertson County2
- Smith County2
- White County2
- Monroe County2
- Anderson County1
- Campbell County1
- Claiborne County1
- Grainger County1
- Knox County1
- Loudon County1
- Morgan County1
- Roane County1
- Scott County1
- Union County1
- Blount County1
- Cocke County1
- Greene County1
- Sevier County1
- Unicoi County1
- Carter County1
- Johnson 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.