Alert archive / Colorado / Mesoscale Discussions / 2018

Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, August 2018

23 mesoscale discussions in August 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
23
Busiest day
August 6, 20184 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
Aug 3, 5:30 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Kiowa3 hr
Aug 4, 1:58 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Weld, Yuma62 min
Aug 5, 2:41 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Phillips, Sedgwick94 min
Aug 5, 6:05 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLarimer115 min
Aug 6, 12:21 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Costilla, Crowley, Custer, El Paso and 7 more114 min
Aug 6, 2:02 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoulder, Larimer, Morgan, Weld88 min
Aug 6, 5:24 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 24 more66 min
Aug 6, 8:06 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield, Crowley and 20 more54 min
Aug 7, 12:59 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Bent, Broomfield, Crowley, Denver and 10 more2 hr
Aug 7, 4:44 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBent, Costilla, Crowley, Custer, Douglas, Elbert and 8 more2 hr
Aug 7, 7:57 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Bent, Cheyenne, Costilla, Crowley and 18 more2 hr
Aug 7, 10:06 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa, Lincoln and 3 more114 min
Aug 14, 5:31 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Custer and 13 more119 min
Aug 15, 5:22 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Las Animas113 min
Aug 17, 2:56 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Crowley, Denver and 13 more2 hr
Aug 18, 12:25 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa and 5 more2 hr
Aug 18, 2:26 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCPhillips, Sedgwick3 hr
Aug 18, 2:50 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 7 more55 min
Aug 18, 5:34 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Prowers116 min
Aug 21, 11:20 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCMesa115 min
Aug 21, 2:57 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Las Animas2 hr
Aug 22, 2:49 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa, Las Animas and 3 more116 min
Aug 25, 7:50 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKit Carson, Yuma55 min

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.