Flash Flood Watches in Kansas
574 flash flood 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 flash flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flash Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 574
- Busiest year
- 201996 flash flood watches
- Average year
- 36over 16 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.
- Cherokee County133
- Crawford County129
- Bourbon County120
- Johnson County84
- Miami County82
- Leavenworth County81
- Wyandotte County80
- Linn County79
- Atchison County76
- Doniphan County72
- Labette County62
- Montgomery County62
- Douglas County61
- Jefferson County61
- Franklin County60
- Neosho County60
- Osage County60
- Shawnee County59
- Jackson County58
- Wilson County58
- Allen County57
- Chautauqua County57
- Elk County57
- Lyon County57
- Anderson County56
- Cowley County56
- Coffey County55
- Greenwood County53
- Sumner County53
- Wabaunsee County53
- Woodson County53
- Pottawatomie County53
- Geary County52
- Riley County52
- Butler County51
- Morris County51
- Nemaha County51
- Sedgwick County50
- Brown County50
- Marshall County49
65 more counties
- Dickinson County49
- Cloud County47
- Clay County45
- Ottawa County45
- Washington County45
- Harper County44
- Harvey County44
- Kingman County43
- Mitchell County43
- Republic County43
- Marion County43
- Jewell County42
- Osborne County42
- Smith County41
- Chase County41
- Gove County40
- Reno County40
- Sheridan County40
- McPherson County40
- Logan County39
- Phillips County39
- Rooks County39
- Decatur County37
- Graham County37
- Barton County37
- Rice County37
- Saline County37
- Wallace County36
- Norton County35
- Ellsworth County35
- Rawlins County35
- Cheyenne County34
- Lincoln County34
- Russell County34
- Sherman County34
- Thomas County34
- Wichita County32
- Greeley County31
- Pratt County19
- Rush County17
- Barber County17
- Edwards County17
- Kiowa County17
- Stafford County17
- Pawnee County16
- Comanche County15
- Ellis County14
- Ford County14
- Hodgeman County13
- Meade County13
- Clark County13
- Ness County11
- Lane County11
- Scott County11
- Gray County10
- Haskell County10
- Kearny County10
- Finney County9
- Grant County9
- Hamilton County9
- Seward County9
- Stanton County9
- Trego County9
- Stevens County8
- Morton County7
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.