Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings / 1997

Tornado Warnings in Kansas, May 1997

52 tornado warnings in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
52
Busiest day
May 26, 199719 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPOttawa32 min
May 7, 5:26 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPDickinson44 min
May 7, 6:07 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPDickinson48 min
May 7, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMorris30 min
May 7, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon44 min
May 17, 7:54 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXMiami36 min
May 18, 5:51 PM CDTTornado WarningICTReno34 min
May 18, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningICTReno48 min
May 18, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCPratt32 min
May 18, 7:17 PM CDTTornado WarningICTKingman43 min
May 18, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCPratt48 min
May 18, 7:29 PM CDTTornado WarningICTReno66 min
May 18, 7:56 PM CDTTornado WarningICTKingman59 min
May 18, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMorris31 min
May 18, 10:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord50 min
May 24, 4:08 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCStanton32 min
May 24, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne65 min
May 25, 4:19 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCTrego31 min
May 25, 4:20 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton, Russell55 min
May 25, 4:31 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFinney29 min
May 25, 4:36 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCLane29 min
May 25, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis30 min
May 25, 4:54 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCTrego46 min
May 25, 5:11 PM CDTTornado WarningICTRussell49 min
May 25, 5:16 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis34 min
May 25, 5:18 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton47 min
May 25, 5:20 PM CDTTornado WarningICTEllsworth60 min
May 25, 5:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis32 min
May 25, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningICTEllsworth60 min
May 25, 7:02 PM CDTTornado WarningICTKingman63 min
May 25, 7:17 PM CDTTornado WarningICTHarper63 min
May 25, 7:39 PM CDTTornado WarningICTHarvey61 min
May 25, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSumner60 min
May 25, 8:20 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPWabaunsee50 min
May 25, 8:34 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler61 min
May 25, 8:39 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSumner61 min
May 25, 8:42 PM CDTTornado WarningICTHarvey33 min
May 25, 8:54 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPShawnee31 min
May 25, 9:07 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPWabaunsee33 min
May 25, 9:11 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley59 min
May 25, 9:20 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPShawnee30 min
May 25, 9:30 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler60 min
May 25, 9:36 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSumner44 min
May 25, 9:40 PM CDTTornado WarningICTGreenwood65 min
May 25, 10:08 PM CDTTornado WarningICTChautauqua, Cowley62 min
May 25, 10:39 PM CDTTornado WarningICTGreenwood, Woodson61 min
May 26, 12:13 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFBourbon47 min
May 26, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WarningICTChautauqua60 min
May 26, 7:36 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley49 min
May 26, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFCherokee35 min
May 29, 4:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord49 min
May 29, 5:16 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Ford34 min

By county

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

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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.