Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2025
64 severe thunderstorm watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 64
- Busiest month
- June17 severe thunderstorm watches
- Busiest day
- June 2, 20253 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 3, 9:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 14, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Cherokee, Crawford, Doniphan and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee | 5 hr |
| Apr 1, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 42 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 4, 4:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Comanche, Ellsworth, Harper and 13 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove, Graham and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 24, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 8 hr |
| Apr 24, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 29, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Harper and 5 more | 7 hr |
| May 14, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas | 5 hr |
| May 18, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 26 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Logan, Morton, Rawlins and 5 more | 8 hr |
| May 23, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 33 more | 7 hr |
| May 24, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Greeley, Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace, Wichita | 6 hr |
| May 24, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Clark and 33 more | 9 hr |
| May 28, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Harper and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 8 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 21 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Greeley, Wallace, Wichita | 8 hr |
| Jun 5, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 6, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 7 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton and 7 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 16, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clark and 52 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 17, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 26, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 7 hr |
| Jun 29, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 12 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 29, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Gove, Grant, Gray and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 10, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 35 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 11, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Wyandotte | 8 hr |
| Jul 11, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins | 7 hr |
| Jul 15, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Norton, Phillips | 9 hr |
| Jul 15, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jewell, Smith | 6 hr |
| Jul 19, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 23, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 3, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 4, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Sherman, Wallace | 6 hr |
| Aug 9, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman and 2 more | 12 hr |
| Aug 9, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Ellis, Finney, Gove and 29 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 10, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan | 4 hr |
| Aug 10, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne | 10 hr |
| Aug 10, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove, Graham and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 10, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 29, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 7 hr |
| Sep 3, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 8, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 3 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 9, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Finney, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 14, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Osborne, Phillips, Rawlins and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 17, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Morton | 7 hr |
| Sep 19, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Ford and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 22, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche and 46 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 18, 11:17 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.
- Thomas County19
- Wallace County19
- Cheyenne County18
- Greeley County18
- Logan County18
- Rawlins County18
- Sherman County18
- Decatur County17
- Wichita County17
- Clark County16
- Harper County16
- Finney County16
- Ford County16
- Sheridan County16
- Kingman County15
- Graham County15
- Gray County15
- Hamilton County15
- Hodgeman County15
- Kearny County15
- Lane County15
- Norton County15
- Scott County15
- Comanche County14
- Pratt County14
- Sumner County14
- Haskell County14
- Meade County14
- Ness County14
- Seward County14
- Barber County13
- Butler County13
- Kiowa County13
- Grant County13
- Morton County13
- Stanton County13
- Cowley County12
- Edwards County12
- Reno County12
- Stafford County12
65 more counties
- Gove County12
- Stevens County12
- Phillips County12
- Chautauqua County11
- Elk County11
- Sedgwick County11
- Rice County11
- Pawnee County11
- Rooks County11
- Harvey County10
- Cherokee County10
- Greenwood County10
- Osborne County10
- Smith County10
- McPherson County9
- Wilson County9
- Trego County9
- Rush County9
- Crawford County8
- Ellsworth County8
- Jewell County8
- Labette County8
- Lincoln County8
- Neosho County8
- Saline County8
- Barton County8
- Russell County8
- Montgomery County8
- Mitchell County7
- Woodson County7
- Ellis County7
- Atchison County6
- Bourbon County6
- Doniphan County6
- Allen County6
- Marion County6
- Brown County5
- Chase County5
- Clay County5
- Cloud County5
- Dickinson County5
- Morris County5
- Ottawa County5
- Pottawatomie County5
- Republic County5
- Riley County5
- Washington County5
- Leavenworth County4
- Wyandotte County4
- Geary County4
- Jackson County4
- Lyon County4
- Marshall County4
- Nemaha County4
- Osage County4
- Wabaunsee County4
- Franklin County3
- Jefferson County3
- Linn County3
- Miami County3
- Coffey County3
- Shawnee County3
- Douglas County2
- Johnson County2
- Anderson County2
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.