Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, May 2018
17 severe thunderstorm watches in May 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 May 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 17
- Busiest day
- May 19, 20183 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Meade County7
- Gray County6
- Grant County5
- Haskell County5
- Morton County5
- Seward County5
- Stanton County5
- Stevens County5
- Cherokee County4
- Crawford County4
- Morris County4
- Shawnee County4
- Wabaunsee County4
- Clark County4
- Edwards County4
- Ford County4
- Hodgeman County4
- Kiowa County4
- Pawnee County4
- Butler County4
- Cowley County4
- Harper County4
- Kingman County4
- Sedgwick County4
- Sumner County4
- Finney County4
- Hamilton County4
- Kearny County4
- Geary County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Cheyenne County3
- Barber County3
- Comanche County3
- Ness County3
- Pratt County3
- Rush County3
- Stafford County3
- Allen County3
- Bourbon County3
65 more counties
- Chase County3
- Chautauqua County3
- Elk County3
- Greenwood County3
- Labette County3
- Lyon County3
- Montgomery County3
- Neosho County3
- Wilson County3
- Woodson County3
- Gove County3
- Greeley County3
- Lane County3
- Logan County3
- Scott County3
- Sheridan County3
- Sherman County3
- Thomas County3
- Wallace County3
- Wichita County3
- Harvey County3
- Marion County3
- Atchison County2
- Brown County2
- Marshall County2
- Nemaha County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Riley County2
- Ellis County2
- Trego County2
- Anderson County2
- Coffey County2
- Douglas County2
- Franklin County2
- Johnson County2
- Leavenworth County2
- Linn County2
- Miami County2
- Osage County2
- Wyandotte County2
- Decatur County2
- Rawlins County2
- Barton County2
- Ellsworth County2
- Lincoln County2
- McPherson County2
- Reno County2
- Rice County2
- Russell County2
- Saline County2
- Doniphan County1
- Graham County1
- Norton County1
- Jewell County1
- Mitchell County1
- Osborne County1
- Phillips County1
- Rooks County1
- Smith County1
- Clay County1
- Cloud County1
- Dickinson County1
- Ottawa County1
- Republic County1
- Washington 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.