Alert archive / Washington / Mesoscale Discussions / 2017
Mesoscale Discussions in Washington, May 2017
4 mesoscale discussions in May 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 5, 20172 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, Pacific Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 3:34 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Chelan, Clark, Cowlitz, Douglas, Franklin and 9 more | 86 min |
| May 4, 7:48 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Clark, Cowlitz, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lewis and 4 more | 87 min |
| May 5, 2:16 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Asotin, Columbia, Garfield | 119 min |
| May 30, 2:48 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Kittitas, Klickitat, Yakima | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
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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.