Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, May 2003
20 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 20
- Busiest day
- May 1, 20033 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 1, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 22 more | 5 hr |
| May 4, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Coffey and 24 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 4:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Doniphan, Wyandotte | 6 hr |
| May 6, 7:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bourbon, Crawford, Franklin, Linn, Miami and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 6, 8:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 28 more | 4 hr |
| May 7, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Sherman, Wallace, Wichita | 6 hr |
| May 8, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler and 44 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 4:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Douglas and 19 more | 7 hr |
| May 9, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 14 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Barber, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay and 25 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Geary, Jackson and 10 more | 5 hr |
| May 13, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Jewell, Marshall and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 13, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark | 7 hr |
| May 22, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Logan, Sherman, Wallace | 6 hr |
| May 22, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Lane and 11 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 28 more | 7 hr |
| May 24, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Morton | 6 hr |
| May 30, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Sherman, Wallace and 1 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Anderson County7
- Douglas County7
- Franklin County7
- Osage County7
- Wabaunsee County7
- Linn County7
- Atchison County6
- Chase County6
- Coffey County6
- Doniphan County6
- Jackson County6
- Jefferson County6
- Lyon County6
- Marion County6
- Morris County6
- Shawnee County6
- Leavenworth County6
- Miami County6
- Wyandotte County6
- Brown County6
- Marshall County6
- Nemaha County6
- Pottawatomie County6
- Riley County6
- Harvey County5
- Bourbon County5
- Crawford County5
- Johnson County5
- Clay County5
- Dickinson County5
- Geary County5
- Allen County4
- Butler County4
- Chautauqua County4
- Cowley County4
- Elk County4
- Greenwood County4
- Labette County4
- Montgomery County4
- Neosho County4
60 more counties
- Sedgwick County4
- Sumner County4
- Wilson County4
- Woodson County4
- Cherokee County4
- McPherson County4
- Republic County4
- Washington County4
- Ottawa County4
- Cheyenne County4
- Sherman County4
- Wallace County4
- Cloud County3
- Jewell County3
- Saline County3
- Greeley County3
- Wichita County3
- Barber County3
- Harper County3
- Kingman County3
- Mitchell County2
- Barton County2
- Comanche County2
- Edwards County2
- Ellis County2
- Kiowa County2
- Pawnee County2
- Pratt County2
- Reno County2
- Rush County2
- Russell County2
- Stafford County2
- Osborne County2
- Phillips County2
- Smith County2
- Clark County2
- Logan County2
- Decatur County2
- Gove County2
- Graham County2
- Lane County2
- Ness County2
- Norton County2
- Rawlins County2
- Scott County2
- Sheridan County2
- Thomas County2
- Trego County2
- Ellsworth County1
- Lincoln County1
- Rice County1
- Finney County1
- Ford County1
- Gray County1
- Hodgeman County1
- Meade County1
- Rooks County1
- Morton County1
- Hamilton County1
- Kearny 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.