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Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1993
182 tornado warnings in 1993. 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 1993. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 182
- Busiest month
- July64 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- May 6, 199321 tornado warnings
Over time
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 4:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | GLD | Norton | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 6:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 38 min |
| Apr 24, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Crawford | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 25 min |
| Apr 30, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 44 min |
| Apr 30, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness | 46 min |
| Apr 30, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Ness | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Ness | 46 min |
| Apr 30, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 38 min |
| Apr 30, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 52 min |
| Apr 30, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 47 min |
| May 5, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wichita | 47 min |
| May 5, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stevens | 29 min |
| May 5, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton | 30 min |
| May 5, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stevens | 31 min |
| May 5, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton | 29 min |
| May 5, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant | 33 min |
| May 5, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stevens | 45 min |
| May 5, 9:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton | 29 min |
| May 5, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant | 47 min |
| May 5, 9:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 27 min |
| May 5, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton | 34 min |
| May 5, 10:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 51 min |
| May 5, 10:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Finney, Scott | 44 min |
| May 6, 7:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 68 min |
| May 6, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie | 51 min |
| May 6, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 42 min |
| May 6, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 27 min |
| May 6, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 29 min |
| May 6, 6:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson | 54 min |
| May 6, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown | 35 min |
| May 6, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Osage | 49 min |
| May 6, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 37 min |
| May 6, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Atchison | 43 min |
| May 6, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Shawnee | 19 min |
| May 6, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 33 min |
| May 7, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Russell | 32 min |
| May 7, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 31 min |
| May 7, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Barton | 35 min |
| May 7, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 28 min |
| May 7, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 34 min |
| May 7, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lincoln, Russell | 45 min |
| May 7, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 39 min |
| May 7, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Barton | 32 min |
| May 7, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lincoln, Mitchell | 49 min |
| May 7, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Smith | 28 min |
| May 7, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stafford | 34 min |
| May 7, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay | 39 min |
| May 7, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Rice | 51 min |
| May 7, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 37 min |
| May 7, 9:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno | 39 min |
| May 8, 9:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 57 min |
| May 8, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Smith | 46 min |
| May 8, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Smith | 18 min |
| May 17, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stafford | 50 min |
| May 17, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 45 min |
| May 17, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 50 min |
| May 17, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 46 min |
| May 17, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 41 min |
| May 17, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 59 min |
| May 17, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 47 min |
| May 17, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 61 min |
| May 17, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 67 min |
| May 17, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 60 min |
| May 17, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Elk | 52 min |
| May 17, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 44 min |
| May 17, 10:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 29 min |
| May 22, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 68 min |
| May 22, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 45 min |
| May 22, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 48 min |
| May 22, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rooks | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 36 min |
| Jun 2, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant, Stevens | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 10:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Seward | 26 min |
| Jun 2, 10:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Seward | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 42 min |
| Jun 7, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 44 min |
| Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 46 min |
| Jun 17, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Smith | 51 min |
| Jun 18, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 47 min |
| Jun 18, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 45 min |
| Jun 23, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Smith | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 2:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur | 69 min |
| Jun 26, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur | 64 min |
| Jun 26, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 58 min |
| Jun 26, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 42 min |
| Jun 26, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 42 min |
| Jun 26, 11:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 49 min |
| Jun 30, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary, Riley | 37 min |
| Jun 30, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Riley | 46 min |
| Jun 30, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Riley | 29 min |
| Jun 30, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Riley | 28 min |
| Jun 30, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee | 36 min |
| Jun 30, 9:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 27 min |
| Jun 30, 9:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 22 min |
| Jul 1, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 57 min |
| Jul 1, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Osborne | 25 min |
| Jul 1, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Osborne | 34 min |
| Jul 1, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay | 36 min |
| Jul 1, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur | 69 min |
| Jul 1, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 62 min |
| Jul 1, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Russell | 42 min |
| Jul 1, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay | 26 min |
| Jul 1, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 60 min |
| Jul 1, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 65 min |
| Jul 1, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 64 min |
| Jul 1, 9:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 69 min |
| Jul 1, 9:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 30 min |
| Jul 2, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon | 30 min |
| Jul 2, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon | 31 min |
| Jul 3, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur | 59 min |
| Jul 4, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Barton | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur | 65 min |
| Jul 4, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ellsworth | 43 min |
| Jul 4, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Osborne, Russell | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall | 18 min |
| Jul 4, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Trego | 50 min |
| Jul 4, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ellsworth | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 50 min |
| Jul 4, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | McPherson, Saline | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 10:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | McPherson, Saline | 21 min |
| Jul 4, 10:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 28 min |
| Jul 6, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 69 min |
| Jul 6, 8:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 8:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 68 min |
| Jul 6, 8:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 10:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 55 min |
| Jul 6, 10:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 59 min |
| Jul 7, 12:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 64 min |
| Jul 7, 12:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Graham | 55 min |
| Jul 7, 1:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Norton | 41 min |
| Jul 7, 10:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 56 min |
| Jul 7, 10:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 64 min |
| Jul 7, 11:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 61 min |
| Jul 7, 11:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 8:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Smith | 32 min |
| Jul 9, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 11:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 11:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 39 min |
| Jul 9, 11:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas | 36 min |
| Jul 9, 11:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 31 min |
| Jul 10, 12:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas | 26 min |
| Jul 23, 9:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 32 min |
| Jul 23, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown | 30 min |
| Jul 24, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Mitchell | 68 min |
| Jul 24, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Washington | 36 min |
| Jul 24, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay, Washington | 43 min |
| Jul 24, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 68 min |
| Jul 24, 10:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 52 min |
| Jul 26, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 64 min |
| Aug 2, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 65 min |
| Aug 27, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wichita | 42 min |
| Aug 27, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Scott | 51 min |
| Aug 27, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Lane | 37 min |
| Sep 18, 8:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Osborne | 38 min |
| Sep 18, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 36 min |
| Sep 18, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kearny | 19 min |
| Sep 18, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 27 min |
| Sep 18, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Seward | 16 min |
| Sep 18, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 31 min |
| Sep 21, 12:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 42 min |
| Sep 21, 1:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 20 min |
| Sep 21, 1:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson | 43 min |
| Sep 21, 1:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson | 51 min |
| Sep 21, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jefferson, Shawnee | 49 min |
| Sep 21, 2:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 38 min |
| Sep 21, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 64 min |
| Sep 21, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth | 59 min |
| Sep 21, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 29 min |
| Sep 21, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas | 32 min |
| Sep 21, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 25 min |
| Sep 21, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson | 45 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Sherman County10
- Finney County8
- Shawnee County8
- Douglas County7
- Morton County6
- Greeley County6
- Smith County6
- Leavenworth County5
- Pottawatomie County5
- Decatur County5
- Ness County4
- Stevens County4
- Stanton County4
- Jackson County4
- Wabaunsee County4
- Russell County4
- Stafford County4
- Clay County4
- Sumner County4
- Riley County4
- Osborne County4
- Johnson County3
- Grant County3
- Kearny County3
- Nemaha County3
- Brown County3
- Barton County3
- Reno County3
- Butler County3
- Kingman County3
- Wallace County3
- Seward County3
- Rawlins County3
- Thomas County3
- Sheridan County3
- Dickinson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Norton County2
- Trego County2
- Gray County2
35 more counties
- Wichita County2
- Scott County2
- Pawnee County2
- Kiowa County2
- Lincoln County2
- Mitchell County2
- Barber County2
- Harper County2
- Montgomery County2
- Hamilton County2
- Lyon County2
- Ellsworth County2
- McPherson County2
- Saline County2
- Washington County2
- Wyandotte County1
- Crawford County1
- Pratt County1
- Osage County1
- Doniphan County1
- Atchison County1
- Rice County1
- Harvey County1
- Elk County1
- Labette County1
- Rooks County1
- Cowley County1
- Cloud County1
- Republic County1
- Geary County1
- Marshall County1
- Ellis County1
- Graham County1
- Lane County1
- Meade County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.