Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, May 2016
17 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 17
- Busiest day
- May 9, 20163 severe thunderstorm watches
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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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant and 18 more | 9 hr |
| May 8, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington | 3 hr |
| May 8, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Ellis, Ellsworth, Jewell, Lincoln and 9 more | 4 hr |
| May 9, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 41 more | 10 hr |
| May 10, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jewell, Phillips, Republic, Smith | 6 hr |
| May 11, 3:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 33 more | 5 hr |
| May 13, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 41 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Meade | 8 hr |
| May 16, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Grant, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stanton and 1 more | 11 hr |
| May 22, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ford, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 12:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 36 more | 7 hr |
| May 24, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay and 24 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Clay, Coffey, Dickinson and 18 more | 5 hr |
| May 25, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Douglas, Franklin, Osage, Shawnee | 5 hr |
| May 26, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cowley, Dickinson and 17 more | 4 hr |
| May 27, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 45 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County9
- Republic County8
- Washington County8
- Geary County8
- Morris County8
- Wabaunsee County8
- Ottawa County7
- Marshall County7
- Dickinson County7
- Lyon County7
- Pottawatomie County7
- Riley County7
- Cloud County6
- Saline County6
- Chase County6
- Harvey County6
- McPherson County6
- Marion County6
- Nemaha County6
- Reno County6
- Ellsworth County5
- Lincoln County5
- Anderson County5
- Brown County5
- Coffey County5
- Douglas County5
- Franklin County5
- Greenwood County5
- Jackson County5
- Jefferson County5
- Osage County5
- Rice County5
- Shawnee County5
- Gove County4
- Graham County4
- Lane County4
- Logan County4
- Ness County4
- Scott County4
- Sheridan County4
65 more counties
- Thomas County4
- Trego County4
- Jewell County4
- Butler County4
- Chautauqua County4
- Cowley County4
- Elk County4
- Harper County4
- Kingman County4
- Sedgwick County4
- Sumner County4
- Atchison County4
- Doniphan County4
- Johnson County4
- Leavenworth County4
- Linn County4
- Miami County4
- Wyandotte County4
- Cheyenne County3
- Decatur County3
- Greeley County3
- Norton County3
- Rawlins County3
- Sherman County3
- Wallace County3
- Wichita County3
- Ellis County3
- Mitchell County3
- Osborne County3
- Rooks County3
- Russell County3
- Allen County3
- Woodson County3
- Grant County2
- Haskell County2
- Stanton County2
- Labette County2
- Montgomery County2
- Neosho County2
- Wilson County2
- Phillips County2
- Smith County2
- Barber County2
- Clark County2
- Comanche County2
- Meade County2
- Barton County2
- Pawnee County2
- Rush County2
- Stafford County2
- Finney County1
- Gray County1
- Hamilton County1
- Kearny County1
- Bourbon County1
- Cherokee County1
- Crawford County1
- Morton County1
- Seward County1
- Stevens County1
- Ford County1
- Hodgeman County1
- Edwards County1
- Kiowa County1
- Pratt 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.