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Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, May 2021

38 mesoscale discussions in May 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
38
Busiest day
May 22, 20215 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 10:14 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver and 7 more2 hr
May 2, 1:15 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Elbert, El Paso, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Morgan and 3 more90 min
May 2, 2:45 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Phillips and 2 more90 min
May 2, 4:12 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Prowers93 min
May 5, 12:07 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArapahoe, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, Kiowa and 2 more2 hr
May 7, 12:00 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLas Animas2 hr
May 8, 2:59 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Denver and 8 more2 hr
May 9, 12:31 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLas Animas2 hr
May 14, 1:56 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Denver, Elbert, Kit Carson and 5 more2 hr
May 15, 1:57 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 15 more2 hr
May 15, 5:17 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBent, Prowers58 min
May 15, 7:54 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKiowa, Prowers66 min
May 16, 1:23 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Crowley, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero and 2 more2 hr
May 16, 4:11 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Washington, Yuma94 min
May 17, 12:39 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Costilla, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero2 hr
May 17, 4:10 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Las Animas, Otero2 hr
May 17, 6:23 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero, Prowers2 hr
May 17, 8:28 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers2 hr
May 21, 2:54 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma3 hr
May 21, 6:30 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan and 4 more90 min
May 22, 10:51 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Crowley, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 8 more114 min
May 22, 1:34 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCPhillips, Sedgwick, Washington116 min
May 22, 4:51 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 10 more114 min
May 22, 5:31 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCPhillips, Sedgwick119 min
May 23, 10:53 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 6 more2 hr
May 23, 1:57 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKit Carson, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and 1 more2 hr
May 23, 2:41 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Prowers94 min
May 23, 4:37 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Phillips and 3 more113 min
May 23, 6:32 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Prowers118 min
May 23, 6:53 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKit Carson, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma67 min
May 26, 11:45 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Weld2 hr
May 26, 4:44 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCPhillips, Sedgwick2 hr
May 29, 12:58 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Crowley, Elbert, Lincoln, Otero2 hr
May 29, 4:54 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrowley, El Paso, Lincoln66 min
May 29, 5:30 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca90 min
May 29, 10:37 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Prowers53 min
May 30, 11:08 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCostilla, Huerfano, Las Animas97 min
May 31, 12:47 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlamosa, Archuleta, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Custer and 8 more88 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. Rebuilt daily.