Alert archive / Kansas / 1997
Weather alerts in Kansas, April 1997
38 weather alerts in April 1997, 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 April 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 38
- Warnings
- 35
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- April 2, 199712 alerts
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 5:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 47 min |
| Apr 1, 6:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 30 min |
| Apr 1, 7:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 47 min |
| Apr 1, 9:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 66 min |
| Apr 2, 5:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 31 min |
| Apr 2, 5:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 6:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 31 min |
| Apr 2, 1:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford | 35 min |
| Apr 2, 2:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 33 min |
| Apr 2, 2:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 32 min |
| Apr 2, 3:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 33 min |
| Apr 2, 4:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 47 min |
| Apr 2, 4:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 32 min |
| Apr 4, 2:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 43 min |
| Apr 4, 3:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 48 min |
| Apr 5, 9:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 48 min |
| Apr 5, 9:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 57 min |
| Apr 5, 10:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 48 min |
| Apr 8, 7:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harper | 3 hr |
| Apr 19, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 29 min |
| Apr 20, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 62 min |
| Apr 20, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee | 6 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 49 min |
| Apr 29, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Osborne, Phillips, Rawlins and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 29, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 41 min |
| Apr 29, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 49 min |
| Apr 30, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 4:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson | 62 min |
| Apr 30, 5:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 26 min |
| Apr 30, 6:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 6:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 34 min |
| Apr 30, 7:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 31 min |
| Apr 30, 7:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 7:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Leavenworth | 33 min |
| Apr 30, 7:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Leavenworth | 32 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 | 34 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Edwards County4
- Ottawa County3
- Russell County3
- Rawlins County3
- Scott County2
- Ford County2
- Clark County2
- Bourbon County2
- Decatur County2
- Osborne County2
- Jackson County2
- McPherson County2
- Marshall County2
- Morris County2
- Wabaunsee County2
- Atchison County2
- Leavenworth County2
- Kearny County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Stafford County1
- Meade County1
- Chautauqua County1
- Elk County1
- Montgomery County1
- Wilson County1
- Seward County1
- Harper County1
- Finney County1
- Cherokee County1
- Graham County1
- Norton County1
- Phillips County1
- Rooks County1
- Sheridan County1
- Smith County1
- Thomas County1
- Ellis County1
- Barton County1
- Brown County1
- Chase County1
21 more counties
- Clay County1
- Cloud County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ellsworth County1
- Geary County1
- Jewell County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- Marion County1
- Mitchell County1
- Nemaha County1
- Pawnee County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Republic County1
- Rice County1
- Riley County1
- Saline County1
- Washington County1
- Harvey County1
- Shawnee County1
- Jefferson 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. Rebuilt daily.