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Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, August 2020

23 mesoscale discussions in August 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
23
Busiest day
August 5, 20203 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 2, 1:28 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Alamosa, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek and 14 more2 hr
Aug 2, 6:48 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers117 min
Aug 3, 2:12 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Alamosa, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Chaffee and 25 more93 min
Aug 4, 12:52 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield and 24 more113 min
Aug 4, 4:16 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 18 more119 min
Aug 4, 8:30 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas and 3 more30 min
Aug 5, 12:27 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Clear Creek and 23 more2 hr
Aug 5, 5:21 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Crowley, Denver and 9 more84 min
Aug 5, 6:12 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCYuma93 min
Aug 6, 12:45 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield, Cheyenne and 28 more2 hr
Aug 6, 5:13 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan and 6 more2 hr
Aug 11, 1:17 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan and 5 more118 min
Aug 11, 6:21 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca84 min
Aug 12, 4:28 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Phillips, Sedgwick92 min
Aug 15, 1:42 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Washington3 hr
Aug 15, 2:17 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrowley, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo118 min
Aug 16, 12:56 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Phillips, Sedgwick and 2 more2 hr
Aug 16, 5:47 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 3 more88 min
Aug 17, 4:15 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Sedgwick2 hr
Aug 20, 5:07 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Bent, Crowley, Douglas, Elbert and 6 more113 min
Aug 28, 8:40 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBent, Kiowa, Prowers2 hr
Aug 29, 12:15 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and 10 more90 min
Aug 29, 1:09 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlamosa, Baca, Bent, Costilla, Crowley, Custer and 6 more2 hr

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.