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Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, August 2020
33 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
- 33
- Busiest day
- August 31, 20205 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, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 7:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hamilton, Morton, Stanton | 117 min |
| Aug 4, 1:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greeley, Hamilton, Morton, Stanton, Stevens, Wallace | 113 min |
| Aug 4, 5:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greeley | 119 min |
| Aug 4, 9:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton and 3 more | 30 min |
| Aug 5, 7:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 93 min |
| Aug 6, 6:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Sherman | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 1:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Rawlins | 115 min |
| Aug 8, 4:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 3:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, McPherson, Marion, Ottawa and 3 more | 119 min |
| Aug 9, 5:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chase, Cherokee, Crawford, Greenwood and 4 more | 116 min |
| Aug 10, 2:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 4:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Clark and 30 more | 85 min |
| Aug 11, 7:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Morton, Seward, Stanton, Stevens | 84 min |
| Aug 13, 12:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 5 more | 118 min |
| Aug 13, 4:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood, Labette, Montgomery, Wilson | 115 min |
| Aug 13, 3:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas and 1 more | 114 min |
| Aug 14, 3:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan, Morton and 5 more | 113 min |
| Aug 14, 6:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell, Osborne, Republic and 2 more | 88 min |
| Aug 14, 9:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Cloud, Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Mitchell and 5 more | 59 min |
| Aug 15, 2:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford, Labette | 2 hr |
| Aug 15, 7:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery | 55 min |
| Aug 16, 1:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 6:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Gove, Greeley, Hamilton, Lane, Logan and 7 more | 88 min |
| Aug 16, 7:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 14 more | 97 min |
| Aug 16, 9:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Harvey and 6 more | 59 min |
| Aug 28, 9:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Gove, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 29, 2:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Dickinson, Edwards and 25 more | 115 min |
| Aug 29, 7:53 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Neosho | 97 min |
| Aug 30, 11:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne, Ottawa and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 31, 4:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Neosho | 117 min |
| Aug 31, 4:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 31, 3:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho | 86 min |
| Aug 31, 6:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery | 92 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cherokee County9
- Labette County9
- Greeley County7
- Logan County7
- Crawford County7
- Hamilton County6
- Stanton County6
- Wallace County6
- Cheyenne County6
- Rawlins County6
- Sherman County6
- Thomas County6
- Cloud County6
- Neosho County6
- Montgomery County6
- Morton County5
- Stevens County5
- Grant County5
- Ottawa County5
- Saline County5
- Dickinson County4
- McPherson County4
- Marion County4
- Republic County4
- Washington County4
- Chase County4
- Greenwood County4
- Chautauqua County4
- Harvey County4
- Wichita County4
- Mitchell County4
- Osborne County4
- Lincoln County4
- Kearny County3
- Seward County3
- Decatur County3
- Clay County3
- Allen County3
- Bourbon County3
- Wilson County3
61 more counties
- Butler County3
- Elk County3
- Sedgwick County3
- Morris County3
- Scott County3
- Jewell County3
- Smith County3
- Barton County3
- Ellsworth County3
- Russell County3
- Gove County3
- Haskell County2
- Woodson County2
- Linn County2
- Miami County2
- Barber County2
- Cowley County2
- Edwards County2
- Finney County2
- Ford County2
- Harper County2
- Hodgeman County2
- Kingman County2
- Kiowa County2
- Pawnee County2
- Pratt County2
- Reno County2
- Stafford County2
- Sumner County2
- Rice County2
- Graham County2
- Phillips County2
- Sheridan County2
- Lane County2
- Ellis County2
- Rooks County2
- Rush County2
- Trego County2
- Anderson County1
- Clark County1
- Comanche County1
- Gray County1
- Meade County1
- Marshall County1
- Norton County1
- Geary County1
- Riley County1
- Lyon County1
- Ness County1
- Atchison County1
- Brown County1
- Doniphan County1
- Douglas County1
- Franklin County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Nemaha County1
- Shawnee County1
- Wyandotte 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.