Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2019
99 severe thunderstorm watches in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 99
- Busiest month
- May32 severe thunderstorm watches
- Busiest day
- May 28, 20195 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 2:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Linn and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 10, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall, Mitchell and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 17, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 22 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte | 7 hr |
| Apr 17, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 3 hr |
| Apr 28, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove, Graham and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 30 more | 8 hr |
| May 5, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 6 hr |
| May 5, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 27 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, McPherson and 4 more | 7 hr |
| May 5, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 5, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood, Montgomery, Wilson | 6 hr |
| May 6, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Doniphan, Geary and 14 more | 5 hr |
| May 6, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 6 hr |
| May 6, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Ellsworth and 12 more | 4 hr |
| May 17, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ford and 11 more | 3 hr |
| May 17, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Geary, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley | 3 hr |
| May 18, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth, Ford and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 20, 7:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Elk, Harper and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Cowley and 32 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan | 3 hr |
| May 23, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 30 more | 8 hr |
| May 23, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Marshall, Nemaha, Republic, Washington | 4 hr |
| May 24, 4:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Doniphan | 4 hr |
| May 25, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gove, Graham and 23 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Doniphan | 6 hr |
| May 25, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Cowley, Ellsworth, Harper and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 27 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Ford, Gray and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 16 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 2:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Cherokee and 20 more | 4 hr |
| May 27, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 6 hr |
| May 27, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic, Washington | 7 hr |
| May 28, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Decatur, Norton, Rawlins | 4 hr |
| May 28, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Cloud, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic, Washington | 7 hr |
| May 28, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Lane, Logan and 8 more | 5 hr |
| May 28, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 14 more | 4 hr |
| May 29, 10:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee | 7 hr |
| Jun 1, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Morton, Stevens | 9 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Johnson, Linn, Miami | 7 hr |
| Jun 1, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 8, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Edwards, Ellsworth, Finney and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 14, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards and 19 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Johnson, Miami | 7 hr |
| Jun 15, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 19, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt | 4 hr |
| Jun 20, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell and 8 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 21, 2:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Douglas and 14 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 21, 8:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Linn, Miami | 9 hr |
| Jun 21, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Greeley, Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace, Wichita | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Geary, Jackson and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 21, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 48 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 22, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler and 46 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 22, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan, Morton, Sherman and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 22, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 18 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 22, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley and 14 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 23, 7:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 5 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 18 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins, Smith | 7 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Gove, Graham, Grant and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 10, 5:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Douglas, Geary, Jackson and 9 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 10, 7:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Wyandotte | 5 hr |
| Jul 20, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 21, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 7, 4:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 11, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Ellis, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 13, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 33 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 14, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Sherman, Wallace | 6 hr |
| Aug 15, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 16, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin and 19 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 16, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 16, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay and 51 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 17, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 17, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 38 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 18, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Morton, Sherman, Stanton and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 23, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 24, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Comanche and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 26, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 29, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Jewell, Logan and 12 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 29, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Leavenworth | 9 hr |
| Aug 29, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler and 59 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 11, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 10 hr |
| Sep 21, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Edwards, Ellis and 33 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 24, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 24, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 25, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Labette, Montgomery, Sumner | 8 hr |
| Sep 27, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Doniphan and 23 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 10, 12:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Marshall County22
- Harvey County21
- Marion County21
- Sedgwick County21
- Pottawatomie County21
- Riley County21
- Russell County20
- Washington County20
- Greenwood County20
- Reno County20
- Barton County20
- Geary County20
- McPherson County20
- Rice County20
- Wabaunsee County20
- Lincoln County19
- Butler County19
- Lyon County19
- Sumner County19
- Ellsworth County19
- Nemaha County19
- Clay County18
- Republic County18
- Cowley County18
- Kingman County18
- Ford County18
- Edwards County18
- Pawnee County18
- Rush County18
- Labette County17
- Linn County17
- Montgomery County17
- Cloud County17
- Mitchell County17
- Osborne County17
- Ottawa County17
- Rooks County17
- Anderson County17
- Chase County17
- Coffey County17
65 more counties
- Gray County17
- Ness County17
- Trego County17
- Dickinson County17
- Ellis County17
- Stafford County17
- Jackson County17
- Wilson County16
- Woodson County16
- Chautauqua County16
- Harper County16
- Osage County16
- Pratt County16
- Atchison County16
- Johnson County16
- Miami County16
- Graham County16
- Hodgeman County16
- Logan County16
- Saline County16
- Kiowa County16
- Shawnee County16
- Bourbon County15
- Cherokee County15
- Neosho County15
- Jewell County15
- Norton County15
- Smith County15
- Elk County15
- Franklin County15
- Rawlins County15
- Thomas County15
- Wallace County15
- Wichita County15
- Morris County15
- Brown County15
- Doniphan County15
- Jefferson County15
- Allen County14
- Phillips County14
- Barber County14
- Douglas County14
- Leavenworth County14
- Finney County14
- Gove County14
- Greeley County14
- Lane County14
- Meade County14
- Sheridan County14
- Crawford County13
- Comanche County13
- Wyandotte County13
- Haskell County13
- Stevens County13
- Cheyenne County13
- Sherman County13
- Clark County12
- Grant County12
- Kearny County12
- Seward County12
- Decatur County11
- Morton County11
- Scott County11
- Hamilton County10
- Stanton County10
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.