Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, May 2002
19 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 19
- Busiest day
- May 24, 20023 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, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin and 8 more | 5 hr |
| May 6, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Miami | 5 hr |
| May 6, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Chase, Clay, Coffey, Dickinson and 18 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Greenwood, Labette and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson | 5 hr |
| May 8, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 11, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray and 11 more | 5 hr |
| May 12, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 14 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee | 6 hr |
| May 15, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Cloud, Ellis, Ellsworth, Harvey, Jewell and 19 more | 5 hr |
| May 16, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Graham, Jewell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 6 hr |
| May 22, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth, Jewell and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 9 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 45 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth and 11 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cherokee County6
- Montgomery County6
- Wilson County6
- Crawford County5
- Labette County5
- Neosho County5
- Woodson County5
- Pratt County5
- Jewell County5
- Osborne County5
- Smith County5
- Anderson County4
- Coffey County4
- Linn County4
- Allen County4
- Bourbon County4
- Chautauqua County4
- Barber County4
- Kingman County4
- Seward County4
- Stafford County4
- Sumner County4
- Cloud County4
- Ellsworth County4
- Lincoln County4
- Mitchell County4
- Reno County4
- Republic County4
- Russell County4
- Sedgwick County4
- Atchison County3
- Jefferson County3
- Miami County3
- Osage County3
- Shawnee County3
- Chase County3
- Clay County3
- Dickinson County3
- Lyon County3
- Riley County3
64 more counties
- Greenwood County3
- Clark County3
- Comanche County3
- Harper County3
- Haskell County3
- Kiowa County3
- Meade County3
- Pawnee County3
- Stevens County3
- Butler County3
- Cowley County3
- Elk County3
- Barton County3
- Ottawa County3
- Phillips County3
- Rice County3
- Rooks County3
- Saline County3
- Washington County3
- Douglas County2
- Franklin County2
- Johnson County2
- Leavenworth County2
- Wyandotte County2
- Geary County2
- Jackson County2
- Marion County2
- Morris County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Wabaunsee County2
- Edwards County2
- Ford County2
- Gray County2
- Hodgeman County2
- Ellis County2
- Harvey County2
- McPherson County2
- Rush County2
- Grant County2
- Greeley County2
- Hamilton County2
- Kearny County2
- Morton County2
- Stanton County2
- Graham County2
- Marshall County2
- Norton County2
- Doniphan County1
- Brown County1
- Nemaha County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Decatur County1
- Finney County1
- Gove County1
- Lane County1
- Logan County1
- Rawlins County1
- Scott County1
- Sheridan County1
- Sherman County1
- Thomas County1
- Wallace County1
- Wichita County1
- Ness 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.