Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, May 2008
12 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 12
- Busiest day
- May 9, 20083 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, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 18 more | 9 hr |
| May 6, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 28 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 31 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 28 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 18 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford | 3 hr |
| May 9, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 17 more | 4 hr |
| May 25, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Finney, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 11 more | 10 hr |
| May 29, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ellis, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant, Greeley and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 4:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 27 more | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Barber County5
- Comanche County5
- Edwards County5
- Finney County5
- Hamilton County5
- Kearny County5
- Kiowa County5
- Lane County5
- Pawnee County5
- Pratt County5
- Scott County5
- Stafford County5
- Logan County5
- Butler County5
- Chautauqua County5
- Elk County5
- Greenwood County5
- Labette County5
- Montgomery County5
- Wilson County5
- Clark County4
- Ford County4
- Grant County4
- Meade County4
- Ness County4
- Gove County4
- Greeley County4
- Sherman County4
- Thomas County4
- Wallace County4
- Wichita County4
- Allen County4
- Chase County4
- Neosho County4
- Woodson County4
- Cowley County4
- Gray County3
- Haskell County3
- Hodgeman County3
- Morton County3
55 more counties
- Seward County3
- Stanton County3
- Stevens County3
- Ellis County3
- Graham County3
- Rush County3
- Sheridan County3
- Trego County3
- Harvey County3
- Marion County3
- Reno County3
- Sedgwick County3
- Sumner County3
- Cherokee County3
- Crawford County3
- Cheyenne County2
- Norton County2
- Rawlins County2
- Barton County2
- McPherson County2
- Morris County2
- Rice County2
- Harper County2
- Kingman County2
- Anderson County2
- Coffey County2
- Franklin County2
- Bourbon County2
- Decatur County1
- Clay County1
- Cloud County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ellsworth County1
- Geary County1
- Jewell County1
- Lincoln County1
- Mitchell County1
- Osborne County1
- Ottawa County1
- Phillips County1
- Republic County1
- Riley County1
- Rooks County1
- Russell County1
- Saline County1
- Smith County1
- Washington County1
- Douglas County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lyon County1
- Osage County1
- Shawnee County1
- Wabaunsee County1
- Linn County1
- Miami 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.