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Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1986

41 tornado warnings in 1986. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

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

Tornado Warnings
41
Busiest month
May15 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 8, 19869 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 7, 5:32 PM CSTTornado WarningICTGreenwood, Woodson28 min
Apr 7, 6:02 PM CSTTornado WarningICTWoodson28 min
Apr 7, 6:33 PM CSTTornado WarningICTNeosho, Wilson, Woodson27 min
Apr 7, 6:44 PM CSTTornado WarningICTCherokee, Crawford31 min
Apr 7, 6:49 PM CSTTornado WarningTOPLyon41 min
Apr 7, 6:58 PM CSTTornado WarningICTAllen, Neosho22 min
Apr 7, 7:05 PM CSTTornado WarningICTChase, Marion25 min
Apr 7, 7:31 PM CSTTornado WarningICTCherokee, Crawford, Labette29 min
Apr 7, 7:31 PM CSTTornado WarningTOPLyon29 min
Apr 7, 7:34 PM CSTTornado WarningICTChase26 min
Apr 17, 2:11 PM CSTTornado WarningGLDThomas64 min
Apr 17, 5:34 PM CSTTornado WarningDDCEdwards56 min
Apr 25, 7:06 PM CSTTornado WarningICTReno24 min
May 5, 7:33 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler, Cowley22 min
May 5, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler31 min
May 5, 9:28 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSumner32 min
May 8, 8:40 PM CDTTornado WarningICTKingman, Sedgwick, Sumner35 min
May 8, 9:23 PM CDTTornado WarningICTKingman, Sedgwick, Sumner67 min
May 12, 11:56 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne64 min
May 14, 1:52 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley, Sumner38 min
May 14, 3:33 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCMorton, Stanton27 min
May 14, 3:33 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCGrant27 min
May 15, 8:39 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCHamilton, Kearny51 min
May 16, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay50 min
May 16, 4:08 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPRiley37 min
May 16, 5:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCComanche42 min
May 27, 1:06 AM CDTTornado WarningICTAllen24 min
May 27, 2:37 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSedgwick23 min
Jun 4, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMitchell33 min
Jun 5, 3:25 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMitchell35 min
Jun 13, 7:05 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDWallace55 min
Jul 6, 6:17 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley43 min
Jul 13, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCMorton35 min
Aug 1, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPCoffey, Lyon45 min
Aug 9, 5:33 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMorris, Wabaunsee27 min
Aug 13, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDLane35 min
Aug 13, 9:22 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord23 min
Sep 5, 9:20 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPJewell40 min
Sep 10, 7:25 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPSaline35 min
Sep 18, 8:18 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPRepublic27 min
Sep 22, 4:20 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPBrown40 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 8, 19869tornado warnings
  2. May 16, 19864tornado warnings
  3. May 6, 19863tornado warnings
  4. May 14, 19863tornado warnings
  5. April 17, 19862tornado warnings
  6. May 9, 19862tornado warnings
  7. May 27, 19862tornado warnings
  8. April 7, 19861tornado warnings
  9. April 26, 19861tornado warnings
  10. May 12, 19861tornado warnings
  11. June 4, 19861tornado warnings
  12. June 5, 19861tornado warnings

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.