Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings / 1991
Tornado Warnings in Kansas, May 1991
53 tornado warnings in May 1991. 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 1991. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 53
- Busiest day
- May 16, 199119 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 2, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 34 min |
| May 13, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 28 min |
| May 13, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Marion | 22 min |
| May 13, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 35 min |
| May 13, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Morris | 33 min |
| May 15, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 64 min |
| May 15, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 43 min |
| May 15, 6:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Scott, Wichita | 69 min |
| May 15, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward | 48 min |
| May 15, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 61 min |
| May 15, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 52 min |
| May 15, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 42 min |
| May 15, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 58 min |
| May 15, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards | 33 min |
| May 16, 1:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ellsworth | 53 min |
| May 16, 2:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 27 min |
| May 16, 2:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Hodgeman | 53 min |
| May 16, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 44 min |
| May 16, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Russell | 44 min |
| May 16, 2:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 37 min |
| May 16, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne | 33 min |
| May 16, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 43 min |
| May 16, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 47 min |
| May 16, 3:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 54 min |
| May 16, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 42 min |
| May 16, 4:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 38 min |
| May 16, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 68 min |
| May 16, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Barton | 48 min |
| May 16, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 45 min |
| May 16, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Barton, Ellsworth, Rice | 47 min |
| May 16, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 50 min |
| May 16, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 62 min |
| May 16, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 54 min |
| May 16, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 30 min |
| May 16, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey | 35 min |
| May 16, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 30 min |
| May 23, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton | 43 min |
| May 23, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 54 min |
| May 23, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton | 40 min |
| May 23, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kearny | 42 min |
| May 23, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 63 min |
| May 26, 4:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 38 min |
| May 26, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 53 min |
| May 26, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant, Stanton | 31 min |
| May 26, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Haskell | 44 min |
| May 26, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant | 32 min |
| May 26, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Haskell | 44 min |
| May 26, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 42 min |
| May 26, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 69 min |
| May 28, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 34 min |
| May 28, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 33 min |
| May 28, 10:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Smith | 54 min |
| May 29, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Russell | 52 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Finney County7
- Butler County7
- Dickinson County3
- Sherman County3
- Kearny County3
- Stanton County2
- Wallace County2
- Gray County2
- Cheyenne County2
- Ellsworth County2
- Pawnee County2
- Hodgeman County2
- Russell County2
- Sumner County2
- Sedgwick County2
- Barton County2
- Morton County2
- Grant County2
- Haskell County2
- Marion County1
- Morris County1
- Scott County1
- Wichita County1
- Meade County1
- Seward County1
- Edwards County1
- Lincoln County1
- Mitchell County1
- Osborne County1
- Harper County1
- Rice County1
- Greenwood County1
- Coffey County1
- Douglas County1
- Franklin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Smith County1
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.