Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, May 1988
32 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 1988. 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 severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 32
- Busiest day
- May 8, 198816 severe thunderstorm warnings
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 | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 12:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 36 min |
| May 7, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 46 min |
| May 7, 1:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 48 min |
| May 8, 7:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 24 min |
| May 8, 8:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Riley, Wabaunsee | 53 min |
| May 8, 8:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary | 27 min |
| May 8, 8:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 49 min |
| May 8, 9:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 36 min |
| May 8, 10:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Atchison, Brown, Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee | 57 min |
| May 8, 10:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 68 min |
| May 8, 11:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 49 min |
| May 8, 11:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 66 min |
| May 8, 11:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 43 min |
| May 8, 11:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 62 min |
| May 8, 11:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 62 min |
| May 8, 12:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 69 min |
| May 8, 12:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee | 51 min |
| May 8, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 55 min |
| May 8, 1:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Crawford | 27 min |
| May 15, 7:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 40 min |
| May 15, 8:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 59 min |
| May 15, 8:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 47 min |
| May 17, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 69 min |
| May 17, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Scott | 55 min |
| May 17, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Scott | 39 min |
| May 27, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Scott | 52 min |
| May 27, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Scott, Wichita | 39 min |
| May 27, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Scott, Wichita | 54 min |
| May 27, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade | 59 min |
| May 27, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 65 min |
| May 29, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 61 min |
| May 31, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 69 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Scott County5
- Franklin County3
- Jefferson County3
- Johnson County2
- Wyandotte County2
- Jackson County2
- Brown County2
- Shawnee County2
- Douglas County2
- Miami County2
- Wichita County2
- Dickinson County1
- Riley County1
- Wabaunsee County1
- Geary County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Atchison County1
- Doniphan County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Linn County1
- Crawford County1
- Gove County1
- Logan County1
- Gray County1
- Meade County1
- Finney County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Reno County1
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19871989
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.