Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, May 2021
14 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 14
- Busiest day
- May 8, 20212 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 2, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Cheyenne, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 34 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Ellis, Ellsworth, Hodgeman, Jewell, Lincoln and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha | 6 hr |
| May 8, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte | 7 hr |
| May 14, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 25 more | 6 hr |
| May 14, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 16 more | 5 hr |
| May 15, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 37 more | 6 hr |
| May 16, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 7 hr |
| May 22, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 5 hr |
| May 23, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 7 hr |
| May 23, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 4 more | 2 hr |
| May 26, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jewell, Marshall and 10 more | 8 hr |
| May 27, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chase and 32 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ford County5
- Hodgeman County5
- Ness County5
- Sherman County5
- Thomas County5
- Barton County4
- Cheyenne County4
- Ellis County4
- Ellsworth County4
- Finney County4
- Gove County4
- Graham County4
- Gray County4
- Greeley County4
- Haskell County4
- Lincoln County4
- Logan County4
- Mitchell County4
- Osborne County4
- Pawnee County4
- Rawlins County4
- Rooks County4
- Rush County4
- Russell County4
- Sheridan County4
- Trego County4
- Wallace County4
- Wichita County4
- Decatur County3
- Edwards County3
- Hamilton County3
- Jewell County3
- Kearny County3
- Lane County3
- Norton County3
- Phillips County3
- Rice County3
- Scott County3
- Smith County3
- Stafford County3
58 more counties
- Marshall County3
- Clark County3
- Grant County3
- Meade County3
- Morton County3
- Seward County3
- Stanton County3
- Stevens County3
- Comanche County3
- Kiowa County3
- Saline County2
- Atchison County2
- Brown County2
- Doniphan County2
- Nemaha County2
- Bourbon County2
- Johnson County2
- Leavenworth County2
- Linn County2
- Miami County2
- Wyandotte County2
- Barber County2
- Kingman County2
- Pratt County2
- Reno County2
- Clay County2
- Cloud County2
- Dickinson County2
- Geary County2
- Morris County2
- Ottawa County2
- Riley County2
- Washington County2
- Harper County1
- Harvey County1
- McPherson County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Sumner County1
- Republic County1
- Allen County1
- Anderson County1
- Chase County1
- Coffey County1
- Crawford County1
- Douglas County1
- Elk County1
- Franklin County1
- Greenwood County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lyon County1
- Neosho County1
- Osage County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Shawnee County1
- Wabaunsee County1
- Wilson County1
- Woodson 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.