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
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20122 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 2, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne, Phillips and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Doniphan | 4 hr |
| May 4, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 7 more | 2 hr |
| May 6, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Butler, Chase, Coffey and 17 more | 7 hr |
| May 19, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 32 more | 7 hr |
| May 19, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Montgomery and 3 more | 7 hr |
| May 23, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Edwards and 28 more | 8 hr |
| May 29, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Harper, Meade, Sumner | 12 hr |
| May 30, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 80 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jewell County5
- Mitchell County5
- Osborne County5
- Smith County5
- Butler County5
- Cowley County5
- Elk County5
- Greenwood County5
- Sumner County5
- Barber County5
- Phillips County4
- Rooks County4
- Chase County4
- Chautauqua County4
- Kingman County4
- McPherson County4
- Reno County4
- Pratt County4
- Stafford County4
- Clark County4
- Comanche County4
- Meade County4
- Graham County3
- Norton County3
- Harvey County3
- Marion County3
- Sedgwick County3
- Wilson County3
- Woodson County3
- Barton County3
- Cloud County3
- Ellsworth County3
- Harper County3
- Lincoln County3
- Ottawa County3
- Republic County3
- Rice County3
- Russell County3
- Saline County3
- Edwards County3
63 more counties
- Ford County3
- Gray County3
- Hodgeman County3
- Kiowa County3
- Pawnee County3
- Doniphan County2
- Allen County2
- Anderson County2
- Coffey County2
- Douglas County2
- Franklin County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lyon County2
- Osage County2
- Shawnee County2
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Geary County2
- Morris County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Riley County2
- Washington County2
- Montgomery County2
- Decatur County2
- Sheridan County2
- Ellis County2
- Ness County2
- Rush County2
- Trego County2
- Atchison County1
- Johnson County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Linn County1
- Miami County1
- Wyandotte County1
- Marshall County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Finney County1
- Gove County1
- Grant County1
- Greeley County1
- Hamilton County1
- Haskell County1
- Jackson County1
- Kearny County1
- Lane County1
- Logan County1
- Morton County1
- Rawlins County1
- Scott County1
- Seward County1
- Sherman County1
- Stanton County1
- Stevens County1
- Thomas County1
- Wabaunsee County1
- Wallace County1
- Wichita County1
- Bourbon County1
- Cherokee County1
- Crawford County1
- Labette County1
- Neosho 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.