Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2019
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, May 2019
32 severe thunderstorm watches in May 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 May 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 32
- Busiest day
- May 28, 20195 severe thunderstorm watches
Over time
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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Nemaha County9
- Barton County8
- Marshall County8
- Edwards County7
- Ellis County7
- Ellsworth County7
- Ford County7
- Gray County7
- Ness County7
- Rice County7
- Rush County7
- Russell County7
- Trego County7
- Harper County7
- Sumner County7
- Doniphan County7
- Pottawatomie County7
- Washington County7
- Jewell County6
- Mitchell County6
- Osborne County6
- Hodgeman County6
- Kiowa County6
- Lincoln County6
- Pawnee County6
- Cowley County6
- Harvey County6
- Kingman County6
- McPherson County6
- Marion County6
- Reno County6
- Sedgwick County6
- Atchison County6
- Brown County6
- Geary County6
- Republic County6
- Riley County6
- Wabaunsee County6
- Phillips County5
- Rooks County5
63 more counties
- Smith County5
- Comanche County5
- Haskell County5
- Lane County5
- Meade County5
- Seward County5
- Butler County5
- Dickinson County5
- Jackson County5
- Jefferson County5
- Shawnee County5
- Chautauqua County5
- Elk County5
- Greenwood County5
- Montgomery County5
- Barber County4
- Clark County4
- Finney County4
- Gove County4
- Graham County4
- Grant County4
- Kearny County4
- Pratt County4
- Scott County4
- Sheridan County4
- Stafford County4
- Stevens County4
- Clay County4
- Cloud County4
- Wilson County4
- Johnson County4
- Leavenworth County4
- Linn County4
- Miami County4
- Wyandotte County4
- Cherokee County4
- Labette County4
- Saline County4
- Lyon County4
- Norton County3
- Ottawa County3
- Bourbon County3
- Crawford County3
- Neosho County3
- Chase County3
- Morris County3
- Logan County3
- Wichita County3
- Anderson County3
- Coffey County3
- Douglas County3
- Franklin County3
- Osage County3
- Decatur County2
- Rawlins County2
- Thomas County2
- Greeley County2
- Wallace County2
- Allen County2
- Woodson County2
- Hamilton County1
- Morton County1
- Stanton 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.