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Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1988

19 tornado warnings in 1988. 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 1988. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
19
Busiest month
July8 tornado warnings
Busiest day
July 17, 19883 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 24, 2:51 PM CSTTornado WarningEAXJohnson, Wyandotte9 min
May 2, 8:18 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSedgwick42 min
May 21, 2:43 PM CDTTornado WarningICTHarvey32 min
May 21, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WarningICTHarvey20 min
May 31, 1:59 PM CDTTornado WarningICTReno31 min
May 31, 3:20 PM CDTTornado WarningICTHarvey25 min
Jun 26, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningICTReno64 min
Jun 26, 7:54 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSedgwick36 min
Jul 9, 5:48 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPCloud57 min
Jul 12, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSherman44 min
Jul 15, 7:52 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay38 min
Jul 15, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPDickinson, Saline44 min
Jul 17, 4:37 PM CDTTornado WarningICTChautauqua, Cowley38 min
Jul 17, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WarningICTChautauqua29 min
Jul 17, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley, Sumner29 min
Jul 19, 11:24 AM CDTTornado WarningICTButler, Sedgwick36 min
Nov 9, 5:04 PM CSTTornado WarningICTCrawford11 min
Nov 15, 2:09 PM CSTTornado WarningTOPShawnee36 min
Nov 15, 2:41 PM CSTTornado WarningTOPAtchison16 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 17, 19883tornado warnings
  2. May 21, 19882tornado warnings
  3. May 31, 19882tornado warnings
  4. June 27, 19882tornado warnings
  5. July 16, 19882tornado warnings
  6. November 15, 19882tornado warnings
  7. March 24, 19881tornado warnings
  8. May 3, 19881tornado warnings
  9. July 9, 19881tornado warnings
  10. July 12, 19881tornado warnings
  11. July 19, 19881tornado warnings
  12. November 9, 19881tornado 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.