Excessive Heat Watches in Kansas
49 excessive heat 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 excessive heat watches reaches back to 2005.
Excessive Heat Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Excessive Heat Watches
- 49
- Busiest year
- 201115 excessive heat watches
- Average year
- 4over 12 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.
- Johnson County11
- Leavenworth County11
- Wyandotte County11
- Anderson County10
- Brown County10
- Coffey County10
- Douglas County10
- Franklin County10
- Geary County10
- Jackson County10
- Jefferson County10
- Lyon County10
- Marshall County10
- Morris County10
- Nemaha County10
- Osage County10
- Pottawatomie County10
- Riley County10
- Shawnee County10
- Wabaunsee County10
- Allen County9
- Atchison County9
- Butler County9
- Chautauqua County9
- Cowley County9
- Doniphan County9
- Elk County9
- Greenwood County9
- Labette County9
- Montgomery County9
- Neosho County9
- Sumner County9
- Wilson County9
- Woodson County9
- Clay County9
- Cloud County9
- Dickinson County9
- Ottawa County9
- Republic County9
- Washington County9
36 more counties
- Chase County8
- Linn County8
- Miami County8
- Sedgwick County8
- Jewell County8
- Mitchell County8
- Osborne County8
- Smith County8
- Bourbon County7
- Cherokee County7
- Crawford County7
- Harper County7
- Kingman County7
- Harvey County7
- McPherson County7
- Marion County7
- Saline County7
- Barton County6
- Ellsworth County6
- Lincoln County6
- Phillips County6
- Reno County6
- Rice County6
- Rooks County6
- Russell County6
- Decatur County2
- Graham County2
- Norton County2
- Sheridan County2
- Gove County1
- Logan County1
- Rawlins County1
- Thomas County1
- Barber County1
- Pratt County1
- Stafford 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.