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Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1987

30 tornado warnings in 1987. 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 1987. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
30
Busiest month
May12 tornado warnings
Busiest day
July 8, 19874 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
Mar 22, 5:15 PM CSTTornado WarningGLDGove, Lane, Ness45 min
May 3, 4:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCHaskell50 min
May 3, 4:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCGrant31 min
May 3, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFinney58 min
May 18, 5:26 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon44 min
May 18, 6:16 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPCoffey, Lyon64 min
May 18, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXWyandotte20 min
May 18, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningICTWoodson64 min
May 21, 6:37 PM CDTTornado WarningICTMontgomery31 min
May 21, 6:39 PM CDTTornado WarningICTLabette29 min
May 25, 6:23 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCSeward47 min
May 26, 10:07 AM CDTTornado WarningDDCKiowa33 min
May 27, 4:05 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPBrown55 min
Jun 1, 8:43 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFinney47 min
Jun 2, 12:50 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPWabaunsee50 min
Jun 2, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSumner35 min
Jun 10, 8:47 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCComanche, Kiowa43 min
Jun 17, 9:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCBarber, Comanche17 min
Jun 19, 2:32 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson28 min
Jun 22, 3:57 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon, Morris43 min
Jun 28, 12:49 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPCloud41 min
Jul 5, 6:27 AM CDTTornado WarningICTButler, Sedgwick33 min
Jul 7, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay65 min
Jul 7, 9:57 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDNess33 min
Jul 7, 10:24 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDScott26 min
Jul 8, 12:00 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDPhillips30 min
Jul 9, 9:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCMorton60 min
Jul 17, 7:20 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDScott50 min
Aug 15, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WarningICTReno35 min
Aug 15, 7:20 PM CDTTornado WarningICTReno30 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. July 8, 19874tornado warnings
  2. May 3, 19873tornado warnings
  3. June 2, 19873tornado warnings
  4. May 18, 19872tornado warnings
  5. May 19, 19872tornado warnings
  6. May 21, 19872tornado warnings
  7. March 22, 19871tornado warnings
  8. May 25, 19871tornado warnings
  9. May 26, 19871tornado warnings
  10. May 27, 19871tornado warnings
  11. June 11, 19871tornado warnings
  12. June 18, 19871tornado 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.