Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, May 2009
141 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 2009. 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 141
- Busiest day
- May 15, 200952 severe thunderstorm warnings
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 31 min |
| May 1, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon, Crawford | 50 min |
| May 1, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 36 min |
| May 1, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 57 min |
| May 1, 2:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 27 min |
| May 1, 9:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 41 min |
| May 1, 11:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 39 min |
| May 1, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 23 min |
| May 1, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 45 min |
| May 5, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 54 min |
| May 6, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 26 min |
| May 7, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman, Thomas | 48 min |
| May 7, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 61 min |
| May 7, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 44 min |
| May 8, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 54 min |
| May 8, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Graham, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 37 min |
| May 8, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 20 min |
| May 8, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Lane, Ness, Scott, Trego | 49 min |
| May 8, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 40 min |
| May 8, 1:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 39 min |
| May 8, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Lane, Ness, Rush, Scott, Trego | 43 min |
| May 8, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Kearny, Lane, Scott | 65 min |
| May 8, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 52 min |
| May 8, 2:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 41 min |
| May 8, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Ford, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman | 62 min |
| May 8, 2:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford | 66 min |
| May 8, 3:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 41 min |
| May 8, 3:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa, Meade | 34 min |
| May 8, 3:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Reno | 46 min |
| May 8, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 63 min |
| May 8, 4:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Greenwood | 58 min |
| May 8, 4:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 53 min |
| May 8, 4:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Elk | 66 min |
| May 8, 4:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 26 min |
| May 8, 4:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Greenwood | 56 min |
| May 8, 4:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood | 32 min |
| May 8, 4:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick | 37 min |
| May 8, 4:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 43 min |
| May 8, 4:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 36 min |
| May 8, 4:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson, Woodson | 28 min |
| May 8, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood | 55 min |
| May 8, 5:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood, Wilson, Woodson | 66 min |
| May 8, 5:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 45 min |
| May 8, 5:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon, Crawford | 56 min |
| May 8, 5:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Montgomery, Sumner, Wilson | 52 min |
| May 8, 5:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho | 61 min |
| May 8, 6:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Labette, Montgomery | 67 min |
| May 8, 6:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 59 min |
| May 8, 6:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon, Crawford | 64 min |
| May 8, 7:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 57 min |
| May 8, 7:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery, Neosho | 21 min |
| May 12, 9:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 58 min |
| May 12, 10:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 21 min |
| May 12, 11:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk | 42 min |
| May 12, 12:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 37 min |
| May 12, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 23 min |
| May 12, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 22 min |
| May 13, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 25 min |
| May 13, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 52 min |
| May 13, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 39 min |
| May 13, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Elk, Greenwood | 55 min |
| May 13, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 16 min |
| May 13, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin | 54 min |
| May 13, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Elk | 45 min |
| May 13, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 57 min |
| May 13, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 49 min |
| May 13, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 48 min |
| May 13, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 30 min |
| May 13, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 88 min |
| May 13, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 30 min |
| May 13, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson | 46 min |
| May 13, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 27 min |
| May 13, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Neosho | 31 min |
| May 13, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Crawford | 75 min |
| May 13, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery, Neosho | 63 min |
| May 13, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 71 min |
| May 13, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 32 min |
| May 13, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 30 min |
| May 15, 6:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic, Washington | 48 min |
| May 15, 7:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 30 min |
| May 15, 7:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 33 min |
| May 15, 7:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 24 min |
| May 15, 8:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 23 min |
| May 15, 8:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 22 min |
| May 15, 9:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 23 min |
| May 15, 9:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 35 min |
| May 15, 10:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 59 min |
| May 15, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 30 min |
| May 15, 10:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 48 min |
| May 15, 11:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson, Nemaha | 51 min |
| May 15, 11:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 31 min |
| May 15, 12:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 30 min |
| May 15, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 32 min |
| May 15, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee | 48 min |
| May 15, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee | 48 min |
| May 15, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee | 41 min |
| May 15, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Reno, Rice | 57 min |
| May 15, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 40 min |
| May 15, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee | 37 min |
| May 15, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 32 min |
| May 15, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Riley, Wabaunsee | 10 min |
| May 15, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 34 min |
| May 15, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 31 min |
| May 15, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee | 45 min |
| May 15, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Kingman, McPherson, Marion, Reno | 38 min |
| May 15, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 49 min |
| May 15, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin, Osage | 42 min |
| May 15, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 22 min |
| May 15, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 49 min |
| May 15, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 29 min |
| May 15, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 35 min |
| May 15, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick | 47 min |
| May 15, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick | 53 min |
| May 15, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 34 min |
| May 15, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 43 min |
| May 15, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Wabaunsee | 26 min |
| May 15, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Wyandotte | 32 min |
| May 15, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 65 min |
| May 15, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 60 min |
| May 15, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Osage | 30 min |
| May 15, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 39 min |
| May 15, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 31 min |
| May 15, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 29 min |
| May 15, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 41 min |
| May 15, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 16 min |
| May 15, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Osage | 49 min |
| May 15, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick, Sumner | 48 min |
| May 15, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 66 min |
| May 15, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey | 37 min |
| May 15, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 31 min |
| May 15, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 19 min |
| May 15, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 35 min |
| May 15, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk | 43 min |
| May 15, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Montgomery | 50 min |
| May 15, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 29 min |
| May 26, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Reno, Rice | 35 min |
| May 26, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 19 min |
| May 30, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 47 min |
| May 30, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards | 45 min |
| May 30, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 39 min |
| May 30, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman | 32 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cowley County10
- Butler County10
- Chautauqua County9
- Osage County9
- Montgomery County8
- Cherokee County8
- Elk County8
- Shawnee County8
- Labette County7
- Crawford County7
- Reno County7
- Barber County7
- Greenwood County6
- Neosho County6
- Sumner County6
- Coffey County6
- Franklin County6
- Douglas County6
- Thomas County5
- Pratt County5
- Sedgwick County5
- Lyon County5
- Anderson County5
- Jackson County5
- Marshall County5
- Nemaha County5
- Wabaunsee County5
- Bourbon County4
- Gray County4
- Harvey County4
- McPherson County4
- Wilson County4
- Woodson County4
- Washington County4
- Pottawatomie County4
- Jefferson County4
- Rawlins County3
- Cheyenne County3
- Sherman County3
- Gove County3
44 more counties
- Logan County3
- Lane County3
- Ness County3
- Scott County3
- Finney County3
- Edwards County3
- Hodgeman County3
- Ford County3
- Rice County3
- Allen County3
- Doniphan County3
- Kingman County3
- Johnson County3
- Harper County3
- Linn County2
- Sheridan County2
- Ellis County2
- Trego County2
- Wichita County2
- Rush County2
- Pawnee County2
- Kiowa County2
- Stafford County2
- Comanche County2
- Chase County2
- Brown County2
- Atchison County2
- Morris County2
- Wyandotte County2
- Graham County1
- Greeley County1
- Wallace County1
- Kearny County1
- Barton County1
- Haskell County1
- Clark County1
- Meade County1
- Cloud County1
- Republic County1
- Dickinson County1
- Geary County1
- Riley County1
- Marion County1
- Leavenworth County1
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Sources
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