Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, May 1997
14 severe thunderstorm watches in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 14
- Busiest day
- May 18, 19973 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth and 9 more | 4 hr |
| May 7, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 20 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Geary and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 16, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 43 more | 6 hr |
| May 16, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Barber, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clark and 43 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clark, Clay and 38 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Coffey, Doniphan and 14 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Crawford, Douglas, Franklin and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Bourbon, Brown and 39 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Clark, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney and 25 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clay, Cloud, Comanche, Dickinson and 27 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gove and 12 more | 4 hr |
| May 26, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 29 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clark County8
- Edwards County8
- Kiowa County8
- Comanche County7
- Ellsworth County7
- Pawnee County7
- Rush County7
- Dickinson County7
- Ford County7
- Barber County6
- Barton County6
- Pratt County6
- Reno County6
- Rice County6
- Stafford County6
- Brown County6
- Geary County6
- Jefferson County6
- Lincoln County6
- Morris County6
- Ottawa County6
- Pottawatomie County6
- Saline County6
- Wabaunsee County6
- Gray County6
- Haskell County6
- Hodgeman County6
- Meade County6
- Seward County6
- Kingman County5
- Atchison County5
- Clay County5
- Cloud County5
- Doniphan County5
- Douglas County5
- Jackson County5
- Leavenworth County5
- Marshall County5
- Mitchell County5
- Nemaha County5
59 more counties
- Riley County5
- Shawnee County5
- Washington County5
- Ellis County5
- Finney County5
- Grant County5
- McPherson County5
- Morton County5
- Russell County5
- Stevens County5
- Harper County4
- Osage County4
- Republic County4
- Johnson County4
- Wyandotte County4
- Gove County4
- Kearny County4
- Lane County4
- Ness County4
- Scott County4
- Trego County4
- Chase County4
- Harvey County4
- Marion County4
- Jewell County3
- Sedgwick County3
- Sumner County3
- Anderson County3
- Franklin County3
- Linn County3
- Miami County3
- Stanton County3
- Graham County2
- Osborne County2
- Phillips County2
- Rooks County2
- Smith County2
- Coffey County2
- Lyon County2
- Allen County2
- Bourbon County2
- Neosho County2
- Hamilton County2
- Crawford County1
- Butler County1
- Chautauqua County1
- Cowley County1
- Elk County1
- Greenwood County1
- Montgomery County1
- Wilson County1
- Woodson County1
- Decatur County1
- Logan County1
- Norton County1
- Rawlins County1
- Sheridan County1
- Thomas 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.