Blizzard Watches in Kansas
19 blizzard watches 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 watches reaches back to 2005.
Blizzard Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Watches
- 19
- Busiest year
- 20095 blizzard watches
- Average year
- 2over 9 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.
- Rawlins County6
- Thomas County6
- Cheyenne County6
- Sherman County6
- Finney County6
- Grant County6
- Decatur County5
- Ellis County5
- Hamilton County5
- Kearny County5
- Rush County5
- Stanton County5
- Wallace County5
- Edwards County5
- Ford County5
- Gray County5
- Haskell County5
- Hodgeman County5
- Pawnee County5
- Gove County4
- Graham County4
- Logan County4
- Norton County4
- Sheridan County4
- Lane County4
- Ness County4
- Scott County4
- Trego County4
- Clark County4
- Meade County4
- Morton County4
- Seward County4
- Stevens County4
- Barton County3
- Ellsworth County3
- Lincoln County3
- Russell County3
- Saline County3
- Barber County3
- Kiowa County3
26 more counties
- Pratt County3
- Stafford County3
- Greeley County2
- Jewell County2
- Mitchell County2
- Osborne County2
- Phillips County2
- Rooks County2
- Smith County2
- Wichita County2
- Comanche County2
- Harper County2
- Harvey County2
- Kingman County2
- McPherson County2
- Reno County2
- Rice County2
- Sedgwick County2
- Sumner County2
- Butler County1
- Chase County1
- Chautauqua County1
- Cowley County1
- Elk County1
- Greenwood County1
- Marion 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.