Alert archive / Colorado / Mesoscale Discussions / 2008
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, August 2008
15 mesoscale discussions in August 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 15
- Busiest day
- August 12, 20083 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, Mountain Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 5:40 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 10:57 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa | 93 min |
| Aug 11, 6:55 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kit Carson | 35 min |
| Aug 11, 8:58 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 62 min |
| Aug 12, 1:30 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Phillips and 3 more | 90 min |
| Aug 13, 5:38 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Phillips and 4 more | 67 min |
| Aug 14, 11:47 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 17 more | 88 min |
| Aug 14, 6:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 17 more | 95 min |
| Aug 15, 1:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamosa, Bent, Costilla, Crowley, Custer, Fremont and 4 more | 84 min |
| Aug 15, 9:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Costilla, Las Animas | 57 min |
| Aug 17, 2:32 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero, Prowers | 88 min |
| Aug 20, 12:47 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Conejos, Costilla | 88 min |
| Aug 24, 1:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Gilpin, Larimer and 2 more | 117 min |
| Aug 25, 1:54 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Crowley and 14 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 1:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cheyenne County7
- Kiowa County7
- Kit Carson County7
- Logan County6
- Washington County6
- Las Animas County6
- Yuma County5
- Lincoln County5
- Bent County5
- Otero County5
- Phillips County4
- Sedgwick County4
- Prowers County4
- Adams County4
- Baca County4
- Broomfield County4
- Crowley County4
- Morgan County4
- Pueblo County4
- Weld County4
- Arapahoe County3
- Denver County3
- Elbert County3
- El Paso County3
- Costilla County3
- Douglas County2
- Huerfano County2
- Alamosa County1
- Custer County1
- Fremont County1
- Conejos County1
- Boulder County1
- Gilpin County1
- Larimer 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.