Weather alerts in Kansas, 2002
1,514 weather alerts in 2002, 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 1,514
- Warnings
- 1,416
- Watches
- 98
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- May513 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 8, 2002104 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
1,514 alerts are too many to list on one page. Narrow it to a product above, to a month in the chart, or to a county.
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 | 1,193 |
| Tornado Warning | 132 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 73 |
| Tornado Watch | 25 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 91 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Sedgwick County66
- Reno County59
- Sumner County58
- Rice County58
- Butler County57
- Kingman County55
- Ford County53
- Pratt County52
- McPherson County52
- Cowley County52
- Marion County51
- Stafford County48
- Harper County46
- Ellsworth County46
- Kiowa County45
- Russell County45
- Barton County44
- Barber County41
- Clark County41
- Pawnee County41
- Chase County40
- Harvey County39
- Meade County39
- Dickinson County38
- Lincoln County38
- Logan County37
- Saline County36
- Jewell County36
- Morris County35
- Comanche County34
- Smith County34
- Chautauqua County34
- Edwards County34
- Hodgeman County34
- Atchison County32
- Lyon County32
- Clay County32
- Ness County32
- Finney County32
- Leavenworth County31
65 more counties
- Greenwood County31
- Gray County31
- Riley County30
- Mitchell County30
- Osborne County30
- Montgomery County30
- Crawford County30
- Shawnee County29
- Geary County29
- Wabaunsee County29
- Elk County29
- Osage County29
- Ellis County29
- Brown County28
- Pottawatomie County28
- Neosho County28
- Wilson County28
- Rooks County28
- Seward County28
- Kearny County28
- Labette County27
- Sherman County27
- Ottawa County27
- Trego County27
- Douglas County26
- Johnson County26
- Haskell County26
- Rush County26
- Jefferson County25
- Jackson County25
- Cloud County25
- Miami County25
- Cherokee County25
- Wallace County25
- Stevens County25
- Hamilton County25
- Nemaha County24
- Linn County24
- Grant County24
- Wichita County24
- Doniphan County23
- Marshall County23
- Franklin County23
- Wyandotte County23
- Washington County23
- Morton County23
- Stanton County23
- Rawlins County23
- Bourbon County22
- Coffey County22
- Gove County22
- Lane County22
- Phillips County22
- Scott County22
- Thomas County22
- Republic County21
- Cheyenne County21
- Decatur County21
- Graham County20
- Norton County20
- Woodson County19
- Allen County18
- Anderson County18
- Sheridan County17
- Greeley County16
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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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.