Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, May 1998
10 severe thunderstorm watches in May 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- May 6, 19982 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 5, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Finney, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 5:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 42 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 7:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley and 1 more | 4 hr |
| May 18, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney and 18 more | 5 hr |
| May 21, 9:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic, Washington | 5 hr |
| May 22, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 5 hr |
| May 22, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cloud, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton and 9 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn | 7 hr |
| May 29, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Brown County4
- Doniphan County4
- Nemaha County4
- Finney County3
- Grant County3
- Haskell County3
- Kearny County3
- Rawlins County3
- Scott County3
- Seward County3
- Stevens County3
- Wichita County3
- Marshall County3
- Cheyenne County2
- Greeley County2
- Hamilton County2
- Logan County2
- Morton County2
- Stanton County2
- Thomas County2
- Wallace County2
- Gray County2
- Lane County2
- Meade County2
- Bourbon County2
- Cherokee County2
- Crawford County2
- Linn County2
- Ottawa County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Riley County2
- Washington County2
- Republic County2
- Sherman County1
- Gove County1
- Allen County1
- Anderson County1
- Atchison County1
- Butler County1
- Chase County1
57 more counties
- Chautauqua County1
- Clay County1
- Coffey County1
- Cowley County1
- Dickinson County1
- Douglas County1
- Elk County1
- Ellsworth County1
- Franklin County1
- Geary County1
- Greenwood County1
- Harvey County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Labette County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lyon County1
- McPherson County1
- Marion County1
- Miami County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morris County1
- Neosho County1
- Osage County1
- Saline County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Shawnee County1
- Wabaunsee County1
- Wilson County1
- Woodson County1
- Wyandotte County1
- Barber County1
- Barton County1
- Clark County1
- Comanche County1
- Edwards County1
- Ford County1
- Hodgeman County1
- Kiowa County1
- Ness County1
- Pawnee County1
- Pratt County1
- Rush County1
- Stafford County1
- Cloud County1
- Decatur County1
- Graham County1
- Jewell County1
- Mitchell County1
- Norton County1
- Osborne County1
- Phillips County1
- Rooks County1
- Sheridan County1
- Smith 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.