Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, May 2011
13 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2011. 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 13
- Busiest day
- May 11, 20112 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 11, 12:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 48 more | 5 hr |
| May 11, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chautauqua and 24 more | 8 hr |
| May 12, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 7 hr |
| May 12, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Linn, Miami | 6 hr |
| May 20, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 30 more | 7 hr |
| May 21, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey and 27 more | 9 hr |
| May 21, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Wyandotte | 7 hr |
| May 23, 6:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 24, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 15 more | 4 hr |
| May 24, 6:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 37 more | 5 hr |
| May 28, 4:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Coffey and 17 more | 5 hr |
| May 29, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 23 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clay, Cloud, Comanche, Dickinson and 28 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County6
- Cloud County6
- Jewell County6
- Lincoln County6
- McPherson County6
- Marion County6
- Mitchell County6
- Osborne County6
- Ottawa County6
- Phillips County6
- Reno County6
- Republic County6
- Rice County6
- Rooks County6
- Saline County6
- Smith County6
- Washington County6
- Anderson County5
- Coffey County5
- Dickinson County5
- Ellsworth County5
- Greenwood County5
- Harvey County5
- Kingman County5
- Lyon County5
- Russell County5
- Ellis County5
- Rush County5
- Stafford County5
- Allen County4
- Brown County4
- Chase County4
- Elk County4
- Geary County4
- Jackson County4
- Jefferson County4
- Marshall County4
- Neosho County4
- Riley County4
- Sedgwick County4
53 more counties
- Shawnee County4
- Wilson County4
- Woodson County4
- Bourbon County4
- Crawford County4
- Linn County4
- Miami County4
- Barton County4
- Pratt County4
- Butler County3
- Chautauqua County3
- Cowley County3
- Douglas County3
- Franklin County3
- Labette County3
- Montgomery County3
- Morris County3
- Nemaha County3
- Osage County3
- Pottawatomie County3
- Wabaunsee County3
- Cherokee County3
- Barber County3
- Comanche County3
- Edwards County3
- Kiowa County3
- Pawnee County3
- Harper County2
- Sumner County2
- Atchison County2
- Doniphan County2
- Johnson County2
- Leavenworth County2
- Wyandotte County2
- Clark County2
- Ness County2
- Cheyenne County1
- Decatur County1
- Gove County1
- Graham County1
- Greeley County1
- Lane County1
- Logan County1
- Norton County1
- Rawlins County1
- Scott County1
- Sheridan County1
- Sherman County1
- Thomas County1
- Trego County1
- Wallace County1
- Wichita County1
- Ford County1
Nearby
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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.