Flood Watches in Kansas
359 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 flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 359
- Busiest year
- 202646 flood watches
- Average year
- 17over 21 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.
- Chautauqua County76
- Labette County76
- Montgomery County76
- Neosho County76
- Wilson County76
- Allen County72
- Elk County71
- Woodson County71
- Cowley County67
- Greenwood County67
- Butler County66
- Chase County56
- Sedgwick County54
- Sumner County54
- Cherokee County53
- Marion County49
- Crawford County47
- Harvey County47
- Linn County46
- Bourbon County43
- Kingman County43
- Miami County43
- Harper County42
- Reno County40
- Anderson County38
- McPherson County38
- Coffey County37
- Johnson County37
- Wyandotte County37
- Rice County36
- Lyon County35
- Osage County35
- Leavenworth County35
- Franklin County34
- Saline County34
- Kiowa County34
- Stafford County33
- Pratt County33
- Ellsworth County32
- Wabaunsee County32
65 more counties
- Atchison County32
- Comanche County32
- Edwards County32
- Shawnee County31
- Douglas County30
- Morris County30
- Pottawatomie County30
- Barber County30
- Geary County29
- Jackson County29
- Jefferson County29
- Rush County29
- Doniphan County29
- Barton County28
- Lincoln County28
- Pawnee County28
- Ellis County27
- Ness County27
- Riley County27
- Russell County27
- Ford County27
- Dickinson County26
- Trego County26
- Clark County26
- Clay County24
- Marshall County24
- Nemaha County24
- Brown County23
- Hodgeman County23
- Meade County21
- Gray County20
- Ottawa County20
- Haskell County19
- Osborne County19
- Sherman County19
- Lane County18
- Jewell County18
- Cheyenne County18
- Cloud County17
- Finney County17
- Grant County17
- Mitchell County17
- Seward County17
- Smith County17
- Wallace County17
- Scott County16
- Rooks County16
- Decatur County16
- Thomas County16
- Stanton County15
- Stevens County15
- Washington County15
- Phillips County15
- Greeley County15
- Logan County15
- Rawlins County15
- Sheridan County15
- Graham County14
- Wichita County14
- Kearny County13
- Morton County13
- Republic County13
- Gove County13
- Hamilton County12
- Norton County12
The latest flood watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 12:47 PM CDT | Flood Watch | TOP | Anderson, Brown, Clay, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas and 14 more | 47 hr |
| Sep 14, 11:37 AM CDT | Flood Watch | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 48 hr |
| Aug 15, 12:32 PM CDT | Flood Watch | GLD | Gove, Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 13 hr |
| Aug 15, 12:30 PM CDT | Flood Watch | DDC | Ellis, Finney, Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 5 more | 13 hr |
| Aug 5, 1:50 AM CDT | Flood Watch | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte | 32 hr |
| Jul 9, 11:05 AM CDT | Flood Watch | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 48 hr |
| Jun 26, 1:30 PM CDT | Flood Watch | ICT | Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 11 more | 17 hr |
| Jun 24, 11:53 AM CDT | Flood Watch | TOP | Anderson, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas and 12 more | 40 hr |
| Jun 24, 11:52 AM CDT | Flood Watch | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte | 41 hr |
| Jun 24, 11:45 AM CDT | Flood Watch | ICT | Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 20 more | 43 hr |
| Jun 24, 11:13 AM CDT | Flood Watch | SGF | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 68 hr |
| Jun 24, 9:39 AM CDT | Flood Watch | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 39 hr |
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.