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Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1989

35 tornado warnings in 1989. 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 1989. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
35
Busiest month
May11 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 18, 19893 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 23, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDNorton33 min
Apr 23, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDPhillips33 min
Apr 27, 4:54 PM CDTTornado WarningICTKingman31 min
May 3, 4:08 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDWallace37 min
May 18, 1:04 PM CDTTornado WarningICTReno26 min
May 18, 2:17 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson28 min
May 18, 2:40 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay, Washington50 min
May 21, 11:01 AM CDTTornado WarningICTButler, Cowley29 min
May 21, 11:27 AM CDTTornado WarningICTButler, Cowley33 min
May 21, 9:16 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCStanton29 min
May 21, 9:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCMorton, Stevens61 min
May 21, 11:42 PM CDTTornado WarningICTReno33 min
May 22, 10:18 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPJewell, Republic57 min
May 31, 6:20 PM CDTTornado WarningICTKingman, Reno40 min
May 31, 7:07 PM CDTTornado WarningICTKingman, Reno53 min
Jun 2, 6:10 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPDouglas, Franklin, Osage50 min
Jun 2, 6:39 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPDouglas, Jefferson36 min
Jun 6, 4:50 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCSeward, Stevens25 min
Jun 6, 5:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCHamilton40 min
Jun 6, 5:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCSeward27 min
Jun 10, 4:27 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSedgwick33 min
Jun 10, 5:36 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler39 min
Jun 10, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDScott60 min
Jun 26, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFinney36 min
Jun 28, 8:02 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSherman73 min
Jul 14, 7:46 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDNorton44 min
Jul 30, 5:01 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPCloud29 min
Aug 19, 7:39 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCrawford36 min
Aug 20, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley29 min
Aug 20, 8:19 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler26 min
Aug 21, 6:18 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPOsborne27 min
Aug 25, 6:35 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon25 min
Sep 8, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPJewell29 min
Sep 8, 7:35 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPGeary, Riley40 min
Sep 8, 8:28 PM CDTTornado WarningICTKingman, Sedgwick22 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. May 18, 19893tornado warnings
  2. May 22, 19893tornado warnings
  3. June 6, 19893tornado warnings
  4. August 21, 19893tornado warnings
  5. May 21, 19892tornado warnings
  6. June 2, 19892tornado warnings
  7. June 10, 19892tornado warnings
  8. September 9, 19892tornado warnings
  9. April 23, 19891tornado warnings
  10. April 24, 19891tornado warnings
  11. April 27, 19891tornado warnings
  12. May 3, 19891tornado warnings

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19881990

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.