Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2018
54 severe thunderstorm watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 54
- Busiest month
- June22 severe thunderstorm watches
- Busiest day
- May 19, 20183 severe thunderstorm watches
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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, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford | 7 hr |
| May 3, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne | 9 hr |
| May 13, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 9 more | 7 hr |
| May 14, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 28 more | 11 hr |
| May 17, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 34 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Cowley, Ellsworth, Harper, Harvey and 16 more | 5 hr |
| May 19, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 15 more | 11 hr |
| May 19, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Geary and 12 more | 3 hr |
| May 20, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 4 hr |
| May 24, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gove, Greeley, Lane, Logan, Scott, Sheridan and 4 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray and 18 more | 7 hr |
| May 28, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 11 more | 10 hr |
| May 29, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 33 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Grant, Gray, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche and 12 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey, Crawford and 8 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 6, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Republic, Washington | 9 hr |
| Jun 6, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 7, 2:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 22 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 39 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 18, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 38 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 19, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Chase, Clark, Comanche, Dickinson and 26 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 22, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Finney, Gove, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 22, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 22, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Ellsworth, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Lincoln and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 23, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 23, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 24, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Ford, Hodgeman, Meade | 7 hr |
| Jun 24, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt | 6 hr |
| Jun 25, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Harper, Montgomery, Sumner | 5 hr |
| Jun 26, 8:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 26 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Crawford, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 26, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 30, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Clay, Coffey, Dickinson and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Logan and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 19, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 19, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barton, Bourbon, Chase and 43 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 25, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 38 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 26, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Hamilton and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 27, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 25 more | 9 hr |
| Jul 28, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 29, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 29, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 29, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barton, Bourbon, Butler and 42 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 16, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 1, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cloud, Ellis, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall, Mitchell and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 2, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Edwards, Ellis and 25 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 20, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 13 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Meade County16
- Grant County15
- Gray County15
- Haskell County15
- Morton County15
- Stanton County15
- Stevens County15
- Seward County14
- Finney County13
- Hamilton County13
- Kearny County13
- Cheyenne County12
- Ford County12
- Pratt County12
- Kingman County12
- Sedgwick County12
- Logan County12
- Thomas County12
- Barton County12
- Morris County11
- Clark County11
- Edwards County11
- Hodgeman County11
- Kiowa County11
- Harper County11
- Sumner County11
- Gove County11
- Scott County11
- Sherman County11
- Wallace County11
- Wichita County11
- Ellsworth County11
- Harvey County11
- McPherson County11
- Reno County11
- Rice County11
- Saline County11
- Barber County10
- Comanche County10
- Pawnee County10
65 more counties
- Stafford County10
- Chase County10
- Greeley County10
- Sheridan County10
- Marion County10
- Osborne County10
- Rooks County10
- Russell County10
- Cherokee County9
- Crawford County9
- Geary County9
- Jackson County9
- Pottawatomie County9
- Riley County9
- Shawnee County9
- Wabaunsee County9
- Ellis County9
- Rush County9
- Butler County9
- Cowley County9
- Greenwood County9
- Rawlins County9
- Lincoln County9
- Smith County9
- Dickinson County9
- Washington County9
- Marshall County8
- Ness County8
- Trego County8
- Allen County8
- Anderson County8
- Bourbon County8
- Chautauqua County8
- Coffey County8
- Elk County8
- Franklin County8
- Linn County8
- Lyon County8
- Miami County8
- Woodson County8
- Decatur County8
- Lane County8
- Jewell County8
- Mitchell County8
- Republic County8
- Atchison County7
- Jefferson County7
- Nemaha County7
- Douglas County7
- Johnson County7
- Leavenworth County7
- Montgomery County7
- Neosho County7
- Osage County7
- Wilson County7
- Wyandotte County7
- Graham County7
- Norton County7
- Phillips County7
- Clay County7
- Cloud County7
- Ottawa County7
- Brown County6
- Labette County6
- Doniphan County4
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.