Alert archive / Colorado / Mesoscale Discussions / 2018
Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, May 2018
36 mesoscale discussions in May 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 May 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 36
- Busiest day
- May 18, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 1:01 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 6 more | 119 min |
| May 9, 5:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers | 95 min |
| May 10, 12:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 2 hr |
| May 10, 5:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick | 2 hr |
| May 10, 6:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Washington, Yuma | 114 min |
| May 11, 12:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer, Weld | 2 hr |
| May 11, 5:39 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Larimer, Weld | 96 min |
| May 13, 4:19 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Elbert, Morgan and 2 more | 2 hr |
| May 14, 12:38 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 5 more | 2 hr |
| May 14, 4:04 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 116 min |
| May 15, 1:32 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Costilla, Crowley, Custer and 11 more | 118 min |
| May 17, 1:38 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 2 hr |
| May 17, 4:19 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick and 3 more | 116 min |
| May 17, 6:47 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 58 min |
| May 17, 9:03 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Sedgwick | 117 min |
| May 18, 1:43 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 2 hr |
| May 18, 3:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Jefferson and 4 more | 114 min |
| May 18, 8:08 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers, Washington, Yuma | 67 min |
| May 21, 11:41 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archuleta, Conejos, Mineral, Rio Grande | 2 hr |
| May 21, 3:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan and 3 more | 2 hr |
| May 22, 4:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Larimer, Weld | 2 hr |
| May 23, 1:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Broomfield, Morgan, Weld | 2 hr |
| May 23, 5:07 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Larimer, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Weld | 83 min |
| May 24, 12:37 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln | 113 min |
| May 24, 5:15 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson | 60 min |
| May 27, 12:38 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Logan, Phillips and 3 more | 3 hr |
| May 27, 4:30 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield and 16 more | 2 hr |
| May 28, 12:19 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson, Routt | 86 min |
| May 28, 12:46 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 59 min |
| May 28, 1:39 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 7 more | 96 min |
| May 28, 4:54 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Washington, Yuma | 96 min |
| May 28, 6:08 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Logan, Morgan, Weld | 97 min |
| May 29, 2:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Elbert, El Paso, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan and 4 more | 95 min |
| May 30, 1:25 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 14 more | 2 hr |
| May 30, 4:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln | 3 hr |
| May 30, 5:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca | 113 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Weld County14
- Kit Carson County14
- Cheyenne County13
- Morgan County12
- Washington County12
- Adams County11
- Arapahoe County11
- Elbert County10
- Logan County10
- Kiowa County10
- Larimer County9
- Broomfield County8
- Denver County8
- Phillips County8
- Sedgwick County8
- Lincoln County8
- Yuma County8
- Prowers County7
- Baca County7
- Boulder County5
- Douglas County5
- El Paso County5
- Bent County4
- Crowley County4
- Huerfano County2
- Las Animas County2
- Otero County2
- Pueblo County2
- Teller County2
- Jefferson County2
- Costilla County1
- Custer County1
- Fremont County1
- Archuleta County1
- Conejos County1
- Mineral County1
- Rio Grande County1
- Jackson County1
- Routt 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.