Alert archive / Kansas / Ford County / 2026
Weather alerts in Ford County, Kansas, May 2026
18 weather alerts in May 2026, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
- Alerts
- 18
- Warnings
- 6
- Watches
- 6
- Advisories
- 1
- Busiest day
- May 18, 20264 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 12:54 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | DDC | 46 hr |
| May 6, 10:57 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | DDC | 21 hr |
| May 13, 12:09 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DDC | 32 hr |
| May 14, 2:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| May 14, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 14, 5:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| May 14, 7:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | 16 min |
| May 15, 10:25 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DDC | 14 hr |
| May 16, 12:27 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DDC | 33 hr |
| May 17, 2:00 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | DDC | 31 hr |
| May 17, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
| May 18, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 18, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | 39 min |
| May 18, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | 47 min |
| May 27, 1:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | 45 min |
| May 30, 2:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | 50 min |
| May 30, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | 28 min |
| May 30, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 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 | 3 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 2 |
| Special Weather Statement | 3 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Watch | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 1 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 3 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 1 |
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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.