Weather alerts in Kansas, 2016
5,641 weather alerts in 2016, 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 5,641
- Warnings
- 2,559
- Watches
- 221
- Advisories
- 411
- Busiest month
- May1,408 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 26, 2016218 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
5,641 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.
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Sedgwick County333
- Butler County318
- Sumner County314
- Cowley County304
- Harvey County274
- Sherman County259
- McPherson County253
- Marion County249
- Wallace County248
- Cheyenne County245
- Reno County243
- Logan County237
- Rawlins County230
- Greenwood County224
- Chase County223
- Kingman County220
- Thomas County219
- Rice County219
- Riley County218
- Wabaunsee County211
- Wichita County209
- Saline County208
- Greeley County206
- Russell County206
- Elk County206
- Lyon County205
- Pottawatomie County202
- Ellsworth County201
- Lincoln County201
- Gove County199
- Harper County198
- Sheridan County196
- Clay County196
- Osage County193
- Washington County193
- Chautauqua County193
- Dickinson County193
- Geary County192
- Shawnee County188
- Johnson County187
65 more counties
- Graham County185
- Osborne County184
- Ottawa County184
- Wilson County184
- Cloud County183
- Barton County183
- Leavenworth County182
- Morris County181
- Decatur County181
- Ford County178
- Scott County178
- Woodson County177
- Jewell County175
- Hodgeman County173
- Finney County171
- Wyandotte County171
- Douglas County169
- Atchison County169
- Allen County169
- Neosho County169
- Republic County167
- Franklin County166
- Jefferson County166
- Haskell County166
- Lane County166
- Jackson County164
- Mitchell County164
- Barber County164
- Ness County164
- Ellis County163
- Kearny County163
- Meade County163
- Montgomery County162
- Pratt County161
- Marshall County160
- Trego County159
- Labette County159
- Coffey County157
- Phillips County157
- Edwards County157
- Kiowa County157
- Doniphan County157
- Gray County156
- Norton County155
- Clark County154
- Grant County153
- Stafford County153
- Miami County153
- Anderson County152
- Rooks County151
- Hamilton County151
- Seward County151
- Nemaha County148
- Smith County148
- Bourbon County148
- Stanton County144
- Comanche County143
- Pawnee County143
- Cherokee County143
- Rush County142
- Morton County136
- Crawford County136
- Stevens County134
- Brown County130
- Linn County127
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.