Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2016
1,509 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 1,509
- Busiest month
- May519 severe thunderstorm warnings
- Busiest day
- May 26, 2016110 severe thunderstorm warnings
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By month
The alerts
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By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Sherman County79
- Butler County64
- Sedgwick County64
- Thomas County62
- Logan County61
- Sumner County59
- Rawlins County59
- Cheyenne County58
- Wallace County52
- Gove County52
- Sheridan County51
- Cowley County49
- Harvey County49
- Decatur County47
- Riley County47
- Jewell County46
- Clay County45
- Washington County43
- Wichita County42
- Edwards County41
- Osborne County40
- Dickinson County40
- McPherson County40
- Marion County39
- Graham County39
- Wabaunsee County38
- Johnson County38
- Ness County37
- Mitchell County36
- Ellis County36
- Pawnee County36
- Reno County35
- Geary County35
- Trego County35
- Greeley County35
- Pottawatomie County34
- Ford County34
- Russell County32
- Kingman County32
- Pratt County31
65 more counties
- Ottawa County31
- Cloud County31
- Harper County31
- Kiowa County31
- Ellsworth County30
- Hodgeman County30
- Saline County29
- Finney County29
- Rush County29
- Osage County28
- Smith County28
- Phillips County28
- Clark County28
- Rice County27
- Republic County27
- Wyandotte County27
- Leavenworth County27
- Scott County27
- Stafford County26
- Shawnee County26
- Barber County25
- Hamilton County24
- Kearny County24
- Lane County24
- Morris County24
- Rooks County24
- Marshall County23
- Norton County23
- Jackson County22
- Doniphan County22
- Comanche County22
- Greenwood County21
- Lincoln County21
- Meade County21
- Lyon County20
- Elk County20
- Atchison County20
- Douglas County20
- Jefferson County19
- Crawford County18
- Barton County18
- Wilson County17
- Franklin County17
- Gray County17
- Chase County16
- Cherokee County16
- Grant County16
- Miami County16
- Bourbon County15
- Haskell County15
- Stanton County14
- Nemaha County14
- Seward County14
- Montgomery County13
- Brown County13
- Stevens County12
- Coffey County12
- Anderson County11
- Chautauqua County10
- Labette County10
- Neosho County10
- Allen County10
- Morton County9
- Woodson County9
- Linn County7
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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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. Rebuilt daily.