Weather alerts in Cowley County, Kansas, 2025

216 weather alerts in 2025, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Cowley County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 216
Warnings: 99
Watches: 35
Advisories: 38
Busiest month: June75 alerts
Busiest day: June 17, 202515 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

Cowley County, 2025

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
Tornado warnings	0			0
Severe thunderstorm warnings	49	20	59%	27	100%	26 min
Flash flood warnings	2	1	50%	0

Each office's whole area, 2025

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
NWS Wichita, KS: tornado warnings	11	5	55%	5	100%	16 min
NWS Wichita, KS: severe thunderstorm warnings	314	164	48%	432	91%	25 min
NWS Wichita, KS: flash flood warnings	26	16	38%	63	92%	61 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

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	Lasted
Jan 3, 1:36 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	52 hr
Jan 5, 3:05 AM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	ICT	32 hr
Jan 5, 7:56 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	4 hr
Jan 5, 5:53 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	4 hr
Jan 8, 2:33 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	42 hr
Jan 20, 2:01 AM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	ICT	34 hr
Jan 20, 12:40 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	ICT	2 hr
Jan 20, 1:21 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	5 hr
Jan 20, 2:40 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	ICT	110 min
Jan 29, 9:56 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	15 hr
Jan 30, 8:11 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	10 hr
Feb 4, 8:07 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	16 hr
Feb 5, 2:20 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	16 hr
Feb 8, 2:29 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	3 hr
Feb 10, 2:02 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	46 hr
Feb 13, 2:25 PM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	27 hr
Feb 15, 1:43 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	ICT	45 hr
Feb 15, 3:57 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	ICT	63 min
Feb 15, 5:01 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	ICT	59 min
Feb 16, 3:21 AM CST	Extreme Cold Watch	ICT	24 hr
Feb 17, 3:23 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	ICT	42 hr
Feb 17, 3:26 AM CST	Extreme Cold Warning	ICT	3 days
Mar 2, 1:32 PM CST	High Wind Watch	ICT	24 hr
Mar 3, 1:52 PM CST	High Wind Warning	ICT	43 hr
Mar 3, 7:13 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	92 min
Mar 3, 9:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr
Mar 4, 2:08 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	ICT	82 min
Mar 5, 8:53 AM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	7 hr
Mar 12, 3:35 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	24 hr
Mar 12, 7:51 PM CDT	High Wind Watch	ICT	24 hr
Mar 13, 3:20 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	30 hr
Mar 13, 8:13 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	ICT	25 hr
Mar 13, 8:17 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	29 hr
Mar 15, 2:36 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	49 hr
Mar 16, 2:42 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	30 hr
Mar 17, 3:36 AM CDT	High Wind Watch	ICT	24 hr
Mar 17, 3:57 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	39 hr
Mar 18, 3:44 AM CDT	High Wind Warning	ICT	39 hr
Mar 18, 3:44 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	42 hr
Mar 29, 6:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
Mar 29, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	27 min
Mar 29, 11:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	27 min
Mar 31, 1:36 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	35 hr
Apr 1, 5:02 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Apr 1, 6:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	86 min
Apr 1, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	42 min
Apr 1, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	49 min
Apr 1, 7:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TSA	28 min
Apr 1, 11:51 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Apr 2, 3:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	41 min
Apr 2, 3:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	47 min
Apr 2, 4:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	46 min
Apr 6, 1:36 AM CDT	Freeze Watch	ICT	12 hr
Apr 6, 2:01 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	ICT	19 hr
Apr 17, 2:01 PM CDT	Flood Watch	ICT	3 days
Apr 22, 3:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Apr 29, 12:50 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	115 min
Apr 29, 2:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
May 19, 11:12 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
May 19, 12:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	115 min
May 19, 1:37 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr
May 19, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	48 min
May 22, 12:26 PM CDT	Flood Watch	ICT	4 days
May 23, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
May 24, 1:47 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	88 min
May 24, 4:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	60 min
May 24, 9:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	90 min
May 24, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr
May 25, 5:24 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	96 min
May 25, 5:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	4 hr
Jun 2, 1:56 PM CDT	Flood Watch	ICT	34 hr
Jun 2, 10:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	113 min
Jun 3, 12:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jun 3, 2:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
Jun 3, 3:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	27 min
Jun 3, 3:28 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	53 hr
Jun 3, 3:31 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	34 hr
Jun 3, 3:31 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	4 days
Jun 3, 3:34 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	4 days
Jun 3, 5:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	15 hr
Jun 3, 8:47 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	7 hr
Jun 3, 8:51 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	54 hr
Jun 4, 6:19 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	8 hr
Jun 5, 3:08 AM CDT	Flood Watch	ICT	51 hr
Jun 6, 2:08 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	8 hr
Jun 6, 2:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	38 min
Jun 7, 1:07 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 7, 1:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	37 min
Jun 7, 2:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	39 min
Jun 7, 2:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	31 min
Jun 7, 2:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	6 hr
Jun 7, 2:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	33 min
Jun 7, 2:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	53 min
Jun 7, 8:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	4 hr
Jun 7, 8:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	29 hr
Jun 7, 11:13 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	53 hr
Jun 8, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr
Jun 8, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	59 min
Jun 8, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	34 min
Jun 8, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	47 min
Jun 8, 5:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	87 min
Jun 8, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	40 min
Jun 14, 7:33 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	117 min
Jun 14, 8:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	51 min
Jun 14, 9:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	22 min
Jun 16, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr
Jun 17, 2:31 AM CDT	Flood Watch	ICT	32 hr
Jun 17, 4:06 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	114 min
Jun 17, 4:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ICT	66 min
Jun 17, 4:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ICT	59 min
Jun 17, 5:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	48 min
Jun 17, 5:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ICT	54 min
Jun 17, 8:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	25 min
Jun 17, 11:38 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	52 hr
Jun 17, 11:38 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	66 hr
Jun 17, 1:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jun 17, 3:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 17, 3:47 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	4 days
Jun 17, 4:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	92 min
Jun 17, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	51 min
Jun 17, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	46 min
Jun 17, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	36 min
Jun 17, 7:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	13 hr
Jun 17, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	45 min
Jun 17, 8:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jun 17, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	22 min
Jun 17, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 17, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	48 min
Jun 17, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	47 min
Jun 17, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	48 min
Jun 18, 2:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	36 hr
Jun 18, 8:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	58 hr
Jun 21, 4:03 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	40 hr
Jun 26, 4:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	91 min
Jun 26, 5:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	29 min
Jun 26, 6:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	4 hr
Jun 26, 10:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	12 hr
Jun 29, 2:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr
Jun 29, 5:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	92 min
Jun 29, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	39 min
Jun 29, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	47 min
Jun 29, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	51 min
Jun 29, 8:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	89 min
Jun 29, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	46 min
Jun 29, 9:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	12 hr
Jul 6, 4:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jul 6, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	45 min
Jul 8, 5:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	92 min
Jul 11, 3:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	119 min
Jul 11, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	37 min
Jul 11, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	37 min
Jul 12, 2:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	4 hr
Jul 12, 3:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	4 hr
Jul 17, 6:05 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	11 hr
Jul 17, 8:52 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	8 hr
Jul 17, 2:07 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	23 hr
Jul 18, 2:51 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	ICT	3 days
Jul 21, 7:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jul 25, 2:09 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	12 hr
Jul 25, 5:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jul 26, 1:29 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	31 hr
Jul 27, 3:41 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	40 hr
Jul 28, 3:31 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	40 hr
Jul 29, 2:27 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	29 hr
Jul 30, 5:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	89 min
Jul 30, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	23 min
Jul 30, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	46 min
Jul 31, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	26 min
Aug 7, 1:49 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	42 hr
Aug 8, 1:36 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	30 hr
Aug 10, 2:11 AM CDT	Flood Watch	ICT	32 hr
Aug 10, 5:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Aug 10, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	57 min
Aug 10, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	64 min
Aug 10, 7:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	16 hr
Aug 10, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	46 min
Aug 10, 8:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	6 hr
Aug 10, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Aug 11, 2:43 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	92 min
Aug 15, 1:06 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	19 hr
Aug 15, 2:32 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	29 hr
Aug 19, 1:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Aug 19, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	54 min
Aug 27, 12:20 PM CDT	Flood Watch	ICT	23 hr
Aug 27, 2:04 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	50 hr
Aug 27, 2:04 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	5 days
Aug 27, 2:06 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	18 hr
Aug 27, 2:14 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	4 days
Aug 28, 4:04 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	7 hr
Aug 28, 1:52 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	18 hr
Sep 3, 3:40 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	4 hr
Sep 3, 4:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	62 min
Sep 3, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Sep 3, 7:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	55 min
Sep 3, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	64 min
Sep 22, 4:57 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	6 hr
Sep 22, 2:05 PM CDT	Flood Watch	ICT	21 hr
Sep 22, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
Sep 23, 1:08 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	97 min
Sep 23, 2:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	60 min
Sep 23, 8:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	27 hr
Oct 28, 7:51 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	29 hr
Oct 29, 1:53 AM CDT	Freeze Watch	ICT	12 hr
Oct 29, 2:04 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	ICT	20 hr
Oct 30, 1:42 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	ICT	19 hr
Nov 1, 2:23 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	ICT	31 hr
Nov 19, 11:51 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	114 min
Nov 22, 7:22 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	17 hr
Nov 28, 12:25 PM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	30 hr
Dec 16, 2:11 PM CST	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	23 hr
Dec 17, 3:20 AM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	39 hr
Dec 17, 1:34 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	ICT	28 hr
Dec 23, 4:29 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	10 hr
Dec 23, 3:11 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	21 hr
Dec 24, 2:23 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	23 hr
Dec 27, 2:18 PM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	26 hr

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	49
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	12
Tornado Watch	5
Mesoscale Discussion	35
Special Weather Statement	9
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	14
Flash Flood Warning	2
River Flood Warning	22
Flood Watch	8
Winter
Winter Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Watch	1
Winter Weather Advisory	6
Heat
Extreme Heat Warning	1
Heat Advisory	8
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	2
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	2
Cold Weather Advisory	2
Frost Advisory	2
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	3
High Wind Watch	3
Wind Advisory	10
Fire
Red Flag Warning	4
Fire Weather Watch	3
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	10

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.