Excessive Heat Warnings in Kansas
169 excessive heat 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 excessive heat warnings reaches back to 2005.
Excessive Heat Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Excessive Heat Warnings
- 169
- Busiest year
- 201128 excessive heat warnings
- Average year
- 10over 17 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.
- Labette County45
- Montgomery County45
- Chautauqua County44
- Neosho County44
- Wilson County44
- Cowley County42
- Elk County42
- Sumner County42
- Allen County39
- Greenwood County39
- Woodson County39
- Butler County38
- Sedgwick County38
- Johnson County37
- Wyandotte County37
- Leavenworth County35
- Harvey County35
- Crawford County34
- Bourbon County33
- Cherokee County33
- Harper County33
- Kingman County32
- Linn County31
- Miami County31
- Reno County30
- Chase County26
- Douglas County26
- Jefferson County26
- Anderson County25
- Franklin County25
- Marion County25
- Osage County25
- Shawnee County25
- Wabaunsee County25
- Coffey County24
- Lyon County24
- Atchison County23
- Doniphan County22
- Jackson County22
- McPherson County22
39 more counties
- Morris County22
- Saline County22
- Geary County21
- Pottawatomie County21
- Riley County21
- Dickinson County19
- Brown County19
- Ellsworth County18
- Lincoln County18
- Nemaha County18
- Rice County17
- Clay County16
- Ottawa County16
- Marshall County16
- Barton County15
- Russell County15
- Cloud County15
- Republic County15
- Washington County15
- Jewell County11
- Mitchell County11
- Osborne County11
- Smith County10
- Barber County9
- Phillips County9
- Rooks County9
- Pratt County8
- Stafford County6
- Ellis County4
- Pawnee County4
- Rush County4
- Comanche County3
- Graham County3
- Norton County3
- Kiowa County2
- Edwards County1
- Clark County1
- Decatur County1
- Sheridan 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.