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High Wind Watches in Kansas, 2024
15 high wind watches in 2024. 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 in 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 15
- Busiest month
- April7 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- April 5, 20245 high wind watches
Over time
By month
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 | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 12:53 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 9 more | 37 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:36 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Harper, Kingman, Lincoln, McPherson and 4 more | 21 hr |
| Mar 23, 10:00 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Greeley, Sherman, Wallace, Wichita | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:02 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 13 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:04 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 22 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:17 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 13 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:02 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | ICT | Barton, Butler, Chase, Cowley, Ellsworth, Harper and 11 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:21 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Ottawa and 3 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:45 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Greeley, Logan, Sherman, Wallace, Wichita | 17 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:58 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | DDC | Finney, Hamilton, Kearny, Lane, Morton, Scott and 1 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:24 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas and 2 more | 11 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:29 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | DDC | Hamilton, Kearny, Scott | 11 hr |
| Oct 28, 2:16 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | DDC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 12 more | 24 hr |
| Oct 28, 2:47 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan, Sheridan, Sherman and 3 more | 31 hr |
| Dec 28, 2:43 PM CST | High Wind Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Greeley, Sherman, Wallace | 35 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Greeley County6
- Sherman County6
- Wallace County6
- Wichita County5
- Lane County4
- Hamilton County4
- Kearny County4
- Scott County4
- Cheyenne County4
- Logan County4
- Clark County3
- Ford County3
- Hodgeman County3
- Ness County3
- Trego County3
- Finney County3
- Morton County3
- Stanton County3
- Thomas County3
- Barber County2
- Comanche County2
- Edwards County2
- Ellis County2
- Kiowa County2
- Pawnee County2
- Pratt County2
- Rush County2
- Stafford County2
- Barton County2
- Ellsworth County2
- Harper County2
- Kingman County2
- Lincoln County2
- McPherson County2
- Reno County2
- Rice County2
- Russell County2
- Saline County2
- Grant County2
- Gray County2
32 more counties
- Haskell County2
- Meade County2
- Seward County2
- Stevens County2
- Gove County2
- Graham County2
- Rawlins County2
- Sheridan County2
- Jewell County1
- Mitchell County1
- Osborne County1
- Phillips County1
- Rooks County1
- Smith County1
- Decatur County1
- Norton County1
- Butler County1
- Chase County1
- Cowley County1
- Harvey County1
- Marion County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Sumner County1
- Clay County1
- Cloud County1
- Dickinson County1
- Geary County1
- Morris County1
- Ottawa County1
- Republic County1
- Riley County1
- Washington County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.