Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2020
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, May 2020
10 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- May 24, 20202 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 3, 8:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 5 hr |
| May 4, 6:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barton, Bourbon, Brown and 49 more | 12 hr |
| May 7, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray and 8 more | 7 hr |
| May 14, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 16 more | 9 hr |
| May 14, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 11 more | 5 hr |
| May 21, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove, Graham and 24 more | 7 hr |
| May 21, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 15 more | 8 hr |
| May 24, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 29 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bourbon County4
- Cherokee County4
- Crawford County4
- Johnson County4
- Clark County4
- Ford County4
- Gray County4
- Hodgeman County4
- Meade County4
- Seward County4
- Atchison County3
- Brown County3
- Doniphan County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Leavenworth County3
- Miami County3
- Nemaha County3
- Pottawatomie County3
- Riley County3
- Wyandotte County3
- Comanche County3
- Edwards County3
- Kiowa County3
- Pratt County3
- Finney County3
- Grant County3
- Haskell County3
- Ness County3
- Stevens County3
- Allen County2
- Anderson County2
- Barton County2
- Clay County2
- Coffey County2
- Douglas County2
- Ellsworth County2
- Franklin County2
- Geary County2
- Greenwood County2
62 more counties
- Jewell County2
- Labette County2
- Lincoln County2
- Linn County2
- Lyon County2
- Marshall County2
- Mitchell County2
- Montgomery County2
- Morris County2
- Neosho County2
- Osage County2
- Osborne County2
- Phillips County2
- Rice County2
- Rooks County2
- Russell County2
- Shawnee County2
- Smith County2
- Wabaunsee County2
- Washington County2
- Wilson County2
- Woodson County2
- Barber County2
- Harper County2
- Kingman County2
- Lane County2
- Morton County2
- Stanton County2
- Trego County2
- Pawnee County2
- Reno County2
- Stafford County2
- Chase County1
- Cloud County1
- Dickinson County1
- McPherson County1
- Marion County1
- Ottawa County1
- Republic County1
- Saline County1
- Sumner County1
- Butler County1
- Chautauqua County1
- Cowley County1
- Elk County1
- Decatur County1
- Gove County1
- Graham County1
- Greeley County1
- Hamilton County1
- Kearny County1
- Logan County1
- Norton County1
- Rawlins County1
- Scott County1
- Sheridan County1
- Sherman County1
- Thomas County1
- Wallace County1
- Wichita County1
- Ellis County1
- Rush 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.