Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, May 2009
8 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2009. 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 8, 20093 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, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Labette | 6 hr |
| May 7, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Jewell and 13 more | 4 hr |
| May 8, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase and 53 more | 8 hr |
| May 8, 4:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 7 hr |
| May 13, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 7:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Douglas and 18 more | 5 hr |
| May 15, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn, Miami | 6 hr |
| May 15, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chautauqua, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cherokee County4
- Labette County4
- Chautauqua County3
- Elk County3
- Franklin County3
- Montgomery County3
- Neosho County3
- Osage County3
- Wilson County3
- Bourbon County3
- Crawford County3
- Miami County3
- Allen County2
- Anderson County2
- Butler County2
- Coffey County2
- Cowley County2
- Greenwood County2
- Lyon County2
- Ottawa County2
- Sumner County2
- Woodson County2
- Douglas County2
- Johnson County2
- Linn County2
- Wyandotte County2
- Cheyenne County1
- Decatur County1
- Gove County1
- Graham County1
- Greeley County1
- Jewell County1
- Logan County1
- Mitchell County1
- Norton County1
- Osborne County1
- Phillips County1
- Rawlins County1
- Rooks County1
- Sheridan County1
63 more counties
- Sherman County1
- Smith County1
- Thomas County1
- Wallace County1
- Wichita County1
- Barber County1
- Barton County1
- Chase County1
- Clark County1
- Comanche County1
- Dickinson County1
- Edwards County1
- Ellis County1
- Ellsworth County1
- Finney County1
- Ford County1
- Grant County1
- Gray County1
- Hamilton County1
- Harper County1
- Harvey County1
- Haskell County1
- Hodgeman County1
- Kearny County1
- Kingman County1
- Kiowa County1
- Lane County1
- Lincoln County1
- McPherson County1
- Marion County1
- Meade County1
- Morris County1
- Ness County1
- Pawnee County1
- Pratt County1
- Reno County1
- Rice County1
- Rush County1
- Russell County1
- Saline County1
- Scott County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Seward County1
- Stafford County1
- Stevens County1
- Trego County1
- Atchison County1
- Brown County1
- Clay County1
- Cloud County1
- Doniphan County1
- Geary County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Marshall County1
- Nemaha County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Republic County1
- Riley County1
- Shawnee County1
- Wabaunsee County1
- Washington 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.