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Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, May 2026

44 mesoscale discussions in May 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.

Mesoscale Discussions
44
Busiest day
May 17, 202610 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 4, 8:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 44 more2 hr
May 8, 2:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Labette and 3 more114 min
May 8, 3:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBourbon, Linn119 min
May 9, 6:19 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCComanche3 hr
May 14, 2:03 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 10 more117 min
May 14, 3:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Logan, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 3 more2 hr
May 14, 5:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 28 more95 min
May 14, 7:04 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Dickinson, Douglas, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson and 8 more56 min
May 16, 2:36 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas84 min
May 16, 4:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Jackson, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell and 7 more3 hr
May 16, 7:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Cloud, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell and 10 more119 min
May 16, 8:36 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCRepublic, Washington114 min
May 16, 10:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCloud, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell, Nemaha, Osborne and 4 more2 hr
May 17, 12:33 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Doniphan, Jackson, Marshall and 4 more87 min
May 17, 2:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall, Mitchell and 6 more60 min
May 17, 3:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Sherman, Wallace3 hr
May 17, 3:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Comanche, Edwards, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 4 more2 hr
May 17, 5:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Ottawa and 3 more62 min
May 17, 5:19 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Comanche, Edwards, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 4 more2 hr
May 17, 6:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Marshall, Ottawa, Republic, Washington67 min
May 18, 11:59 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth and 20 more2 hr
May 18, 2:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Lincoln, Marshall, Ottawa, Washington83 min
May 18, 2:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt and 1 more119 min
May 18, 5:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha and 2 more2 hr
May 18, 8:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Butler, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin and 12 more3 hr
May 19, 2:01 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 2 more119 min
May 21, 4:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGrant, Hamilton, Morton, Stanton, Stevens88 min
May 21, 5:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGrant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton119 min
May 21, 8:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFinney, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny, Meade and 2 more92 min
May 22, 5:24 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDickinson, Geary, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley and 1 more2 hr
May 23, 1:24 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas3 hr
May 24, 2:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDecatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant, Greeley and 15 more115 min
May 25, 5:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace2 hr
May 29, 3:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Comanche, Harper89 min
May 29, 3:19 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGreeley, Sherman, Wallace116 min
May 29, 5:57 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Harper, Kingman and 1 more93 min
May 29, 6:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas and 1 more115 min
May 30, 2:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 32 more3 hr
May 30, 3:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 2 more2 hr
May 30, 3:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDecatur, Rawlins114 min
May 30, 4:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Ellis, Ellsworth, Harper, Harvey, Kingman and 15 more2 hr
May 30, 7:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDecatur89 min
May 30, 7:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 30 more2 hr
May 30, 9:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 33 more2 hr

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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.