Weather alerts in Thomas County, Kansas

5,166 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Thomas County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 5,166
Warnings: 1,880
Watches: 881
Advisories: 844
Busiest year: 2023313 alerts
Average year: 126over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	1,134
Tornado Warning	117
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	408
Tornado Watch	113
Mesoscale Discussion	1,022
Special Weather Statement	539
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	26
Flash Flood Warning	90
Flash Flood Watch	34
Flood Watch	16
Areal Flood Advisory	16
Winter
Blizzard Warning	24
Heavy Snow Warning	2
Winter Storm Warning	35
Blizzard Watch	6
Winter Storm Watch	54
Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Freezing Rain Advisory	6
Snow Advisory	6
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	9
Winter Weather Advisory	130
Heat
Excessive Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	28
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	30
Hard Freeze Warning	2
Wind Chill Warning	15
Extreme Cold Watch	2
Freeze Watch	19
Hard Freeze Watch	1
Wind Chill Watch	3
Cold Weather Advisory	4
Frost Advisory	64
Wind Chill Advisory	66
Wind and dust
Blowing Dust Warning	19
Dust Storm Warning	20
High Wind Warning	106
High Wind Watch	58
Blowing Dust Advisory	23
Dust Storm Advisory	8
Wind Advisory	204
Fire
Red Flag Warning	259
Fire Weather Watch	166
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	270
Freezing Fog Advisory	9

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 19, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	23 min
Sep 18, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	67 min
Sep 18, 6:24 PM CDT	Blowing Dust Warning	GLD	96 min
Sep 4, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	47 min
Aug 21, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GLD	42 min
Aug 20, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	70 min
Aug 20, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	81 min
Aug 19, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	63 min
Aug 14, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	58 min
Jul 23, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	48 min
Jul 9, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	66 min
Jul 9, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	42 min

Nearby

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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. Rebuilt daily.