Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, August 1997
3 severe thunderstorm watches in August 1997. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- August 22, 19972 severe thunderstorm watches
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 21, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clay, Cloud, Comanche, Dickinson and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 21, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards and 31 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Harvey County3
- McPherson County3
- Marion County3
- Clay County2
- Cloud County2
- Dickinson County2
- Washington County2
- Barber County2
- Barton County2
- Comanche County2
- Edwards County2
- Harper County2
- Kingman County2
- Kiowa County2
- Pawnee County2
- Pratt County2
- Reno County2
- Rice County2
- Rush County2
- Sedgwick County2
- Stafford County2
- Sumner County2
- Atchison County1
- Brown County1
- Chase County1
- Doniphan County1
- Douglas County1
- Geary County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Lyon County1
- Marshall County1
- Morris County1
- Nemaha County1
- Osage County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Riley County1
- Shawnee County1
34 more counties
- Wabaunsee County1
- Wyandotte County1
- Ellis County1
- Ellsworth County1
- Jewell County1
- Lincoln County1
- Mitchell County1
- Osborne County1
- Ottawa County1
- Phillips County1
- Republic County1
- Rooks County1
- Russell County1
- Saline County1
- Smith County1
- Clark County1
- Cowley County1
- Finney County1
- Ford County1
- Grant County1
- Gray County1
- Greeley County1
- Hamilton County1
- Haskell County1
- Hodgeman County1
- Kearny County1
- Lane County1
- Meade County1
- Ness County1
- Scott County1
- Seward County1
- Stanton County1
- Stevens County1
- Wichita County1
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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.