Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings / 1989

Tornado Warnings in Kansas, May 1989

11 tornado warnings in May 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 May 1989. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings: 11
Busiest day: May 18, 19893 tornado warnings

Over time

By day

Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 4:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wallace	37 min
May 18, 1:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Reno	26 min
May 18, 2:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Johnson	28 min
May 18, 2:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay, Washington	50 min
May 21, 11:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	29 min
May 21, 11:27 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	33 min
May 21, 9:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Stanton	29 min
May 21, 9:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Morton, Stevens	61 min
May 21, 11:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Reno	33 min
May 22, 10:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Jewell, Republic	57 min
May 31, 6:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno	40 min

By county

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

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 1988 1990

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.