Blizzard Warnings in Kansas
97 blizzard warnings since 1986. 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 blizzard warnings reaches back to 2005.
Blizzard Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Warnings
- 97
- Busiest year
- 201814 blizzard warnings
- Average year
- 5over 19 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cheyenne County34
- Sherman County31
- Rawlins County27
- Thomas County24
- Wallace County21
- Decatur County19
- Logan County19
- Sheridan County18
- Graham County17
- Norton County16
- Phillips County14
- Smith County14
- Gove County14
- Greeley County14
- Ford County13
- Hodgeman County13
- Wichita County13
- Rooks County12
- Edwards County12
- Ellis County12
- Grant County12
- Ness County12
- Pawnee County12
- Rush County12
- Trego County12
- Stanton County11
- Finney County11
- Haskell County11
- Lane County11
- Stafford County11
- Osborne County10
- Morton County10
- Gray County10
- Kiowa County10
- Scott County10
- Stevens County10
- Jewell County9
- Hamilton County9
- Kearny County9
- Meade County9
65 more counties
- Seward County9
- Mitchell County8
- Clark County8
- Barton County7
- Cloud County6
- Comanche County6
- Pratt County6
- Republic County6
- Washington County6
- Brown County6
- Marshall County6
- Nemaha County6
- Russell County6
- Barber County5
- Ottawa County5
- Doniphan County5
- Douglas County5
- Geary County5
- Johnson County5
- Leavenworth County5
- Pottawatomie County5
- Riley County5
- Wyandotte County5
- Ellsworth County5
- Lincoln County5
- Clay County4
- Atchison County4
- Jackson County4
- Jefferson County4
- McPherson County4
- Reno County4
- Rice County4
- Shawnee County4
- Wabaunsee County4
- Anderson County3
- Coffey County3
- Franklin County3
- Harvey County3
- Kingman County3
- Linn County3
- Lyon County3
- Marion County3
- Miami County3
- Morris County3
- Osage County3
- Sedgwick County3
- Dickinson County3
- Saline County3
- Harper County2
- Sumner County2
- Butler County2
- Chase County2
- Allen County1
- Bourbon County1
- Chautauqua County1
- Cherokee County1
- Crawford County1
- Elk County1
- Labette County1
- Montgomery County1
- Neosho County1
- Wilson County1
- Woodson County1
- Cowley County1
- Greenwood County1
The latest blizzard warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 3:46 AM CDT | Blizzard Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 33 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:40 AM CDT | Blizzard Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington | 36 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:07 AM CDT | Blizzard Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 10 more | 34 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:37 AM CDT | Blizzard Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 4 more | 40 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:25 AM CDT | Blizzard Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 38 hr |
| Mar 4, 2:15 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | TOP | Brown, Douglas, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall and 5 more | 26 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:15 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 39 hr |
| Mar 3, 2:38 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman | 35 hr |
| Jan 4, 6:14 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 7 more | 22 hr |
| Jan 4, 3:31 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith | 26 hr |
| Jan 4, 2:13 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 34 hr |
| Jan 4, 1:51 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | TOP | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Douglas, Geary and 14 more | 30 hr |
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.