Alert archive / Kansas / 1986
Weather alerts in Kansas, May 1986
148 weather alerts in May 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 148
- Warnings
- 148
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 16, 198641 alerts
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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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 52 min |
| May 5, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 58 min |
| May 5, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Greenwood | 54 min |
| May 5, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Osage | 63 min |
| May 5, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon | 63 min |
| May 5, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 59 min |
| May 5, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 22 min |
| May 5, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 37 min |
| May 5, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 26 min |
| May 5, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 31 min |
| May 5, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner | 54 min |
| May 5, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 32 min |
| May 5, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 58 min |
| May 5, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 51 min |
| May 5, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 58 min |
| May 5, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 65 min |
| May 5, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 31 min |
| May 5, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 61 min |
| May 6, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 58 min |
| May 6, 1:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk, Montgomery | 56 min |
| May 6, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary | 46 min |
| May 6, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson | 40 min |
| May 6, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 87 min |
| May 6, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 46 min |
| May 6, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Morris | 65 min |
| May 6, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson | 60 min |
| May 6, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley | 99 min |
| May 6, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary | 99 min |
| May 6, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee | 72 min |
| May 6, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 63 min |
| May 6, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Nemaha | 83 min |
| May 6, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 48 min |
| May 6, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 59 min |
| May 6, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 52 min |
| May 6, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson | 60 min |
| May 6, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Atchison, Jefferson | 64 min |
| May 7, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 51 min |
| May 7, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 55 min |
| May 7, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 53 min |
| May 7, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 61 min |
| May 7, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 55 min |
| May 7, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 61 min |
| May 7, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rush | 59 min |
| May 7, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Ellis | 62 min |
| May 7, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell | 66 min |
| May 7, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Lane, Scott | 59 min |
| May 8, 8:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 59 min |
| May 8, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 36 min |
| May 8, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton, Sheridan | 69 min |
| May 8, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Lane | 61 min |
| May 8, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 57 min |
| May 8, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 26 min |
| May 8, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 57 min |
| May 8, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 28 min |
| May 8, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner | 35 min |
| May 8, 9:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner | 67 min |
| May 8, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick | 30 min |
| May 8, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 30 min |
| May 8, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Wabaunsee | 26 min |
| May 10, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 69 min |
| May 12, 11:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 64 min |
| May 12, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 43 min |
| May 12, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 41 min |
| May 12, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Atchison | 53 min |
| May 12, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson | 56 min |
| May 12, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 58 min |
| May 12, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 46 min |
| May 12, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 45 min |
| May 12, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Osage, Shawnee | 70 min |
| May 12, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 41 min |
| May 12, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 67 min |
| May 13, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 60 min |
| May 13, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 35 min |
| May 13, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Osage | 29 min |
| May 13, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 45 min |
| May 13, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Scott, Wichita | 50 min |
| May 13, 1:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 43 min |
| May 13, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Lane | 53 min |
| May 13, 2:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 53 min |
| May 13, 3:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 48 min |
| May 14, 12:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 63 min |
| May 14, 1:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 59 min |
| May 14, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner | 56 min |
| May 14, 1:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 38 min |
| May 14, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 56 min |
| May 14, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Neosho | 64 min |
| May 14, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner | 58 min |
| May 14, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 69 min |
| May 14, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 58 min |
| May 14, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Ellis, Trego | 67 min |
| May 14, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Crawford | 17 min |
| May 14, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 54 min |
| May 14, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osborne, Russell | 57 min |
| May 14, 3:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 27 min |
| May 14, 3:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant | 27 min |
| May 14, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osborne, Russell | 60 min |
| May 14, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 65 min |
| May 14, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 28 min |
| May 14, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 57 min |
| May 15, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 57 min |
| May 15, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny | 51 min |
| May 15, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 55 min |
| May 15, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 48 min |
| May 15, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 63 min |
| May 15, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Rooks | 64 min |
| May 16, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 61 min |
| May 16, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osborne | 57 min |
| May 16, 5:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Smith | 53 min |
| May 16, 5:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 51 min |
| May 16, 6:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley | 58 min |
| May 16, 6:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 58 min |
| May 16, 6:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley | 4 hr |
| May 16, 6:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Brown | 4 hr |
| May 16, 7:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Atchison | 57 min |
| May 16, 8:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 61 min |
| May 16, 8:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 32 min |
| May 16, 9:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Riley | 30 min |
| May 16, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud | 57 min |
| May 16, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 53 min |
| May 16, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay | 50 min |
| May 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Riley | 45 min |
| May 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary | 45 min |
| May 16, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Riley | 37 min |
| May 16, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 55 min |
| May 16, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ellsworth, Saline | 55 min |
| May 16, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 57 min |
| May 16, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley | 50 min |
| May 16, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary | 50 min |
| May 16, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | McPherson | 61 min |
| May 16, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Comanche | 42 min |
| May 16, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Rice | 67 min |
| May 16, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 60 min |
| May 16, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Saline | 60 min |
| May 16, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche, Kiowa | 55 min |
| May 16, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Riley | 41 min |
| May 16, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | McPherson | 42 min |
| May 16, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 52 min |
| May 16, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno | 66 min |
| May 16, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 42 min |
| May 16, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 18 min |
| May 16, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 54 min |
| May 16, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 40 min |
| May 16, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 50 min |
| May 16, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 50 min |
| May 16, 9:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Atchison, Brown, Jackson, Jefferson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie | 5 hr |
| May 16, 9:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall, Riley | 5 hr |
| May 27, 1:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Allen | 24 min |
| May 27, 2:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 23 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 129 |
| Tornado Warning | 15 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Riley County10
- Butler County9
- Cowley County9
- Sedgwick County9
- Sumner County9
- Pottawatomie County9
- Clay County8
- Marshall County7
- Shawnee County6
- Dickinson County6
- Kingman County6
- Jefferson County5
- Geary County5
- Nemaha County5
- Reno County5
- Osage County4
- Douglas County4
- Wabaunsee County4
- Jackson County4
- Atchison County4
- Lyon County3
- Franklin County3
- Wyandotte County3
- Chautauqua County3
- Elk County3
- Montgomery County3
- Republic County3
- Washington County3
- Gray County3
- Lane County3
- Brown County3
- Kearny County3
- Osborne County3
- Leavenworth County2
- Pratt County2
- Ellis County2
- Finney County2
- Scott County2
- Gove County2
- Graham County2
40 more counties
- Harvey County2
- Harper County2
- Cheyenne County2
- Wallace County2
- Wichita County2
- Hamilton County2
- Russell County2
- Cloud County2
- Saline County2
- McPherson County2
- Comanche County2
- Barber County2
- Chase County1
- Greenwood County1
- Coffey County1
- Morris County1
- Stafford County1
- Rush County1
- Haskell County1
- Hodgeman County1
- Decatur County1
- Norton County1
- Sheridan County1
- Doniphan County1
- Johnson County1
- Neosho County1
- Trego County1
- Crawford County1
- Morton County1
- Stanton County1
- Grant County1
- Thomas County1
- Greeley County1
- Rooks County1
- Smith County1
- Ottawa County1
- Ellsworth County1
- Rice County1
- Kiowa County1
- Allen County1
Nearby
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.