Alert archive / Colorado / Mesoscale Discussions / 2020

Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, May 2020

26 mesoscale discussions in May 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 May 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
26
Busiest day
May 20, 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
May 1, 12:47 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoulder, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson, Larimer, Moffat and 2 more88 min
May 1, 5:19 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick and 2 more116 min
May 2, 11:53 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCMoffat, Rio Blanco2 hr
May 2, 2:44 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Gilpin, Jefferson and 1 more2 hr
May 3, 2:44 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Denver, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 7 more2 hr
May 3, 8:59 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArapahoe, Elbert, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma2 hr
May 4, 12:39 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKit Carson, Phillips, Washington, Yuma3 hr
May 14, 8:12 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers3 hr
May 15, 2:15 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso and 9 more90 min
May 16, 5:14 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLas Animas91 min
May 17, 3:49 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLas Animas116 min
May 19, 4:18 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrowley, El Paso, Las Animas, Lincoln, Otero, Pueblo117 min
May 19, 5:01 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLarimer, Logan, Morgan, Weld119 min
May 20, 1:07 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Weld83 min
May 20, 2:51 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers114 min
May 20, 5:25 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Weld95 min
May 20, 8:10 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCWeld95 min
May 21, 1:20 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCProwers85 min
May 23, 2:18 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCYuma117 min
May 23, 2:57 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma93 min
May 23, 5:27 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Phillips, Sedgwick93 min
May 24, 1:28 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 2 more2 hr
May 24, 6:06 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca84 min
May 29, 6:08 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan97 min
May 30, 1:45 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLarimer90 min
May 31, 12:18 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJackson, Larimer, Moffat117 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.