Alert archive / Colorado / Mesoscale Discussions / 2016
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, May 2016
17 mesoscale discussions in May 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 17
- Busiest day
- May 24, 20163 mesoscale discussions
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 11:29 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan and 5 more | 91 min |
| May 7, 4:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and 1 more | 97 min |
| May 7, 6:35 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 85 min |
| May 10, 2:18 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln | 117 min |
| May 11, 2:16 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more | 119 min |
| May 15, 2:32 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archuleta, Conejos, Costilla | 118 min |
| May 16, 1:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Las Animas | 84 min |
| May 21, 4:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers, Yuma | 116 min |
| May 24, 11:31 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 9 more | 59 min |
| May 24, 2:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Logan, Morgan, Phillips and 4 more | 86 min |
| May 24, 5:46 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma | 89 min |
| May 24, 6:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington | 86 min |
| May 25, 1:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick | 53 min |
| May 26, 2:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Denver and 9 more | 2 hr |
| May 26, 5:46 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kit Carson, Yuma | 59 min |
| May 30, 1:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Denver, Elbert, Kit Carson and 8 more | 64 min |
| May 30, 6:05 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson | 85 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kit Carson County9
- Yuma County9
- Phillips County8
- Sedgwick County8
- Logan County7
- Morgan County7
- Washington County7
- Arapahoe County6
- Adams County5
- Elbert County5
- Cheyenne County5
- Weld County4
- Lincoln County4
- Kiowa County4
- Denver County4
- Baca County3
- Prowers County3
- Bent County2
- Crowley County2
- Las Animas County2
- Otero County2
- Douglas County2
- Archuleta County1
- Conejos County1
- Costilla County1
- Boulder County1
- Broomfield County1
- Jefferson County1
- El Paso County1
- Pueblo 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.