Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, May 2017
17 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 17
- Busiest day
- May 17, 20173 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 9, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Grant, Greeley and 13 more | 7 hr |
| May 10, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 2 hr |
| May 11, 12:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 1 more | 8 hr |
| May 15, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant and 20 more | 7 hr |
| May 15, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jewell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 6 hr |
| May 16, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 23 more | 7 hr |
| May 16, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins | 5 hr |
| May 16, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Cowley, Harper, Sumner | 6 hr |
| May 16, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Comanche, Dickinson, Edwards and 17 more | 5 hr |
| May 18, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more | 4 hr |
| May 25, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Lane and 12 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 12 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Ellis, Ellsworth, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell and 8 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton, Seward and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee | 5 hr |
| May 31, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn, Miami | 5 hr |
| May 31, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 15 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cheyenne County5
- Decatur County5
- Gove County5
- Graham County5
- Norton County5
- Rawlins County5
- Hamilton County4
- Kearny County4
- Logan County4
- Sheridan County4
- Sherman County4
- Thomas County4
- Wallace County4
- Cherokee County4
- Phillips County4
- Rooks County4
- Grant County3
- Greeley County3
- Morton County3
- Scott County3
- Stanton County3
- Wichita County3
- Crawford County3
- Cowley County3
- Sumner County3
- Lane County3
- Jewell County3
- Osborne County3
- Smith County3
- Ellsworth County3
- Lincoln County3
- McPherson County3
- Rice County3
- Saline County3
- Bourbon County2
- Chautauqua County2
- Labette County2
- Montgomery County2
- Finney County2
- Haskell County2
53 more counties
- Seward County2
- Stevens County2
- Atchison County2
- Dickinson County2
- Doniphan County2
- Geary County2
- Mitchell County2
- Ottawa County2
- Harper County2
- Barton County2
- Butler County2
- Chase County2
- Harvey County2
- Kingman County2
- Marion County2
- Reno County2
- Sedgwick County2
- Linn County2
- Miami County2
- Ellis County2
- Rush County2
- Trego County2
- Gray County1
- Meade County1
- Brown County1
- Clay County1
- Cloud County1
- Jackson County1
- Marshall County1
- Nemaha County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Republic County1
- Riley County1
- Washington County1
- Barber County1
- Comanche County1
- Edwards County1
- Kiowa County1
- Morris County1
- Pawnee County1
- Pratt County1
- Stafford County1
- Johnson County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Wyandotte County1
- Ness County1
- Russell County1
- Allen County1
- Elk County1
- Greenwood County1
- Neosho County1
- Wilson County1
- Woodson 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.