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Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1997
113 tornado warnings in 1997. 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 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 113
- Busiest month
- May52 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- May 26, 199719 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 32 min |
| May 7, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 44 min |
| May 7, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 48 min |
| May 7, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Morris | 30 min |
| May 7, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon | 44 min |
| May 17, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Miami | 36 min |
| May 18, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 34 min |
| May 18, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 48 min |
| May 18, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 32 min |
| May 18, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 43 min |
| May 18, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 48 min |
| May 18, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 66 min |
| May 18, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 59 min |
| May 18, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Morris | 31 min |
| May 18, 10:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 50 min |
| May 24, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 32 min |
| May 24, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 65 min |
| May 25, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Trego | 31 min |
| May 25, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 55 min |
| May 25, 4:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 29 min |
| May 25, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Lane | 29 min |
| May 25, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 30 min |
| May 25, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Trego | 46 min |
| May 25, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 49 min |
| May 25, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 34 min |
| May 25, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 47 min |
| May 25, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 60 min |
| May 25, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 32 min |
| May 25, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 60 min |
| May 25, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 63 min |
| May 25, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 63 min |
| May 25, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey | 61 min |
| May 25, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 60 min |
| May 25, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 50 min |
| May 25, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 61 min |
| May 25, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 61 min |
| May 25, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey | 33 min |
| May 25, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 31 min |
| May 25, 9:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 33 min |
| May 25, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 59 min |
| May 25, 9:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 30 min |
| May 25, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 60 min |
| May 25, 9:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 44 min |
| May 25, 9:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 65 min |
| May 25, 10:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 62 min |
| May 25, 10:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Greenwood, Woodson | 61 min |
| May 26, 12:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 47 min |
| May 26, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 60 min |
| May 26, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 49 min |
| May 26, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 35 min |
| May 29, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 49 min |
| May 29, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 34 min |
| Jun 11, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 4:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Nemaha, Pottawatomie | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 9:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Jewell | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 10:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud | 65 min |
| Jun 11, 10:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Graham | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey | 30 min |
| Jun 24, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 35 min |
| Jun 24, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Trego | 31 min |
| Jun 25, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 65 min |
| Jun 25, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 35 min |
| Jun 25, 10:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 4:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove | 35 min |
| Jun 29, 5:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 63 min |
| Jun 29, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 63 min |
| Jun 29, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 63 min |
| Jun 29, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Greenwood | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 30 min |
| Jun 29, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 42 min |
| Jun 29, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Wilson | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Neosho | 61 min |
| Jul 1, 5:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 30 min |
| Jul 5, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 50 min |
| Jul 5, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Scott | 46 min |
| Jul 13, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary | 32 min |
| Jul 13, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 34 min |
| Jul 13, 9:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Morris | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Marion | 33 min |
| Jul 13, 9:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Marion | 27 min |
| Aug 1, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Scott | 32 min |
| Aug 13, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 35 min |
| Aug 16, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Washington | 49 min |
| Aug 18, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 50 min |
| Aug 18, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Seward | 32 min |
| Aug 18, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward | 45 min |
| Aug 18, 9:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 32 min |
| Aug 20, 2:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark | 33 min |
| Aug 20, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark | 46 min |
| Aug 21, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Rooks | 49 min |
| Aug 21, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Osborne | 43 min |
| Aug 21, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Rooks | 46 min |
| Oct 8, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Marion | 35 min |
| Oct 8, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Morris | 47 min |
| Oct 8, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 47 min |
| Oct 8, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee | 46 min |
| Oct 8, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 49 min |
| Oct 8, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson | 47 min |
| Oct 8, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 30 min |
| Oct 8, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee | 50 min |
| Oct 8, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson | 35 min |
| Oct 8, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Atchison | 44 min |
| Oct 8, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jefferson, Shawnee | 48 min |
| Oct 8, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown | 46 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Morris County5
- Sumner County5
- Wabaunsee County4
- Shawnee County4
- Cowley County4
- Greenwood County4
- Jackson County4
- Wallace County4
- Dickinson County3
- Reno County3
- Kingman County3
- Ford County3
- Stanton County3
- Trego County3
- Ellis County3
- Butler County3
- Clark County3
- Pottawatomie County3
- Marion County3
- Pratt County2
- Barton County2
- Russell County2
- Ellsworth County2
- Harper County2
- Harvey County2
- Chautauqua County2
- Greeley County2
- Nemaha County2
- Coffey County2
- Sheridan County2
- Brown County2
- Scott County2
- Geary County2
- Seward County2
- Rooks County2
- Ottawa County1
- Lyon County1
- Miami County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Finney County1
22 more counties
- Lane County1
- Woodson County1
- Bourbon County1
- Cherokee County1
- Marshall County1
- Jewell County1
- Cloud County1
- Graham County1
- Thomas County1
- Gove County1
- McPherson County1
- Sherman County1
- Wilson County1
- Neosho County1
- Hamilton County1
- Washington County1
- Meade County1
- Barber County1
- Osborne County1
- Riley County1
- Atchison County1
- Jefferson County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.