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Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, May 2020

35 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
35
Busiest day
May 24, 20206 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, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 6:19 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne116 min
May 3, 6:05 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 18 more2 hr
May 3, 7:58 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 18 more3 hr
May 3, 3:44 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Sherman2 hr
May 4, 1:39 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins and 5 more3 hr
May 4, 5:50 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Cherokee and 38 more55 min
May 4, 9:00 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Chase, Cherokee and 32 more90 min
May 4, 10:38 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey, Crawford and 15 more97 min
May 4, 1:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery114 min
May 7, 1:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 8 more3 hr
May 7, 6:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray and 3 more62 min
May 13, 11:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jewell and 5 more2 hr
May 14, 3:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson and 6 more95 min
May 14, 6:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 11 more119 min
May 14, 8:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Atchison, Chase, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 14 more113 min
May 14, 9:12 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFinney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 7 more3 hr
May 14, 10:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Coffey, Crawford, Douglas and 9 more2 hr
May 15, 1:06 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 10 more114 min
May 21, 2:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gove and 25 more85 min
May 21, 6:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFinney, Ford, Gove, Graham, Grant, Gray and 20 more96 min
May 21, 9:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 18 more65 min
May 21, 11:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Ford, Harper, Kingman and 5 more2 hr
May 22, 3:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Marshall, Nemaha, Washington96 min
May 23, 3:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace117 min
May 23, 5:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Logan, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 3 more55 min
May 23, 8:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Clark, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 9 more2 hr
May 24, 1:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Clay, Doniphan, Douglas and 18 more92 min
May 24, 2:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEdwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell and 9 more2 hr
May 24, 2:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGreeley, Hamilton, Stanton2 hr
May 24, 3:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCSeward83 min
May 24, 5:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Edwards and 32 more91 min
May 24, 7:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGrant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens84 min
May 24, 8:30 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Clark, Cloud, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 26 more60 min
May 24, 10:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Finney, Geary and 25 more117 min
May 25, 10:36 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford54 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.