Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2012

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, May 2012

12 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Watches
12
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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCGraham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne, Phillips and 2 more6 hr
May 4, 12:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDoniphan4 hr
May 4, 1:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCButler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 7 more2 hr
May 6, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Butler, Chase, Coffey and 17 more7 hr
May 19, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 32 more7 hr
May 19, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCButler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Montgomery and 3 more7 hr
May 23, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDecatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 4 more6 hr
May 25, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray and 6 more5 hr
May 27, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Edwards and 28 more8 hr
May 29, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Harper, Meade, Sumner12 hr
May 30, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 80 more7 hr
May 30, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more8 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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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.