High Wind Watches in Kansas
239 high wind 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 high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 239
- Busiest year
- 202227 high wind watches
- Average year
- 11over 22 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.
- Wallace County73
- Greeley County70
- Sherman County70
- Hamilton County67
- Kearny County65
- Scott County64
- Cheyenne County63
- Finney County63
- Logan County61
- Wichita County61
- Lane County59
- Morton County58
- Stanton County58
- Thomas County58
- Grant County56
- Stevens County55
- Haskell County54
- Gray County53
- Ness County53
- Rawlins County53
- Seward County51
- Hodgeman County50
- Trego County49
- Gove County48
- Meade County48
- Ford County47
- Ellis County45
- Pawnee County44
- Sheridan County44
- Decatur County43
- Rush County43
- Graham County42
- Clark County41
- Edwards County41
- Norton County41
- Kiowa County36
- Stafford County35
- Pratt County34
- Comanche County33
- Phillips County33
65 more counties
- Rooks County32
- Barber County31
- Smith County30
- Osborne County27
- Barton County24
- Russell County24
- Jewell County23
- Ellsworth County23
- Lincoln County23
- Rice County23
- Mitchell County22
- Kingman County20
- Reno County20
- Harper County18
- McPherson County16
- Sumner County15
- Saline County15
- Harvey County13
- Sedgwick County13
- Butler County12
- Cowley County12
- Marion County10
- Chase County9
- Cloud County9
- Elk County9
- Greenwood County9
- Ottawa County9
- Republic County9
- Chautauqua County8
- Clay County8
- Dickinson County8
- Washington County8
- Montgomery County7
- Wilson County7
- Woodson County7
- Geary County7
- Morris County7
- Riley County7
- Allen County6
- Coffey County6
- Franklin County6
- Lyon County6
- Marshall County6
- Osage County6
- Anderson County5
- Brown County5
- Douglas County5
- Jefferson County5
- Labette County5
- Nemaha County5
- Neosho County5
- Pottawatomie County5
- Shawnee County5
- Jackson County4
- Wabaunsee County4
- Doniphan County4
- Atchison County3
- Johnson County3
- Leavenworth County3
- Miami County3
- Wyandotte County3
- Linn County2
- Bourbon County1
- Cherokee County1
- Crawford County1
The latest high wind watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 1:35 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | TOP | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas and 16 more | 22 hr |
| Mar 13, 1:10 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 22 hr |
| Mar 13, 12:49 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 13, 12:42 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | ICT | Barton, Butler, Chase, Cowley, Elk, Ellsworth and 13 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:49 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 23 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:09 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 25 hr |
| Feb 15, 1:24 AM CST | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Gove, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman and 3 more | 48 hr |
| Feb 14, 11:09 PM CST | High Wind Watch | DDC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 11 more | 37 hr |
| Jan 15, 1:43 AM CST | High Wind Watch | DDC | Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hamilton and 8 more | 11 hr |
| Jan 14, 2:20 AM CST | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 33 hr |
| Jan 14, 2:19 AM CST | High Wind Watch | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 35 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.