Alert archive / Colorado / Mesoscale Discussions / 2011

Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, May 2011

12 mesoscale discussions in May 2011. 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
12
Busiest day
May 19, 20113 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 12:51 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Prowers84 min
May 17, 4:14 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers, Washington, Yuma61 min
May 17, 6:39 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCWashington36 min
May 18, 6:36 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln54 min
May 18, 9:25 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Prowers2 hr
May 19, 1:24 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 3 more66 min
May 23, 2:17 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Denver and 10 more88 min
May 24, 1:24 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKit Carson96 min
May 24, 9:37 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Phillips and 2 more83 min
May 28, 8:27 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Washington2 hr
May 30, 1:19 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Weld56 min
May 30, 4:47 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma58 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

Nearby

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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.