Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings / 1998
Tornado Warnings in Kansas, May 1998
39 tornado warnings in May 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 39
- Busiest day
- May 25, 199813 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 5, 11:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant, Stevens | 26 min |
| May 6, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 33 min |
| May 6, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 35 min |
| May 6, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 36 min |
| May 6, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 32 min |
| May 11, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 60 min |
| May 11, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln | 60 min |
| May 11, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 63 min |
| May 11, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Saline | 63 min |
| May 11, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 48 min |
| May 11, 9:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 64 min |
| May 11, 10:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 46 min |
| May 20, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 31 min |
| May 22, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 31 min |
| May 22, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 49 min |
| May 22, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 65 min |
| May 22, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 48 min |
| May 22, 9:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 63 min |
| May 22, 10:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 49 min |
| May 22, 10:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Graham | 51 min |
| May 22, 11:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Norton | 47 min |
| May 22, 11:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 62 min |
| May 23, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Kiowa | 33 min |
| May 24, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 50 min |
| May 24, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove | 47 min |
| May 24, 2:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Lane | 48 min |
| May 24, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 57 min |
| May 24, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 45 min |
| May 24, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 61 min |
| May 24, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant | 35 min |
| May 24, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 60 min |
| May 24, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 66 min |
| May 24, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 48 min |
| May 24, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 47 min |
| May 24, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 62 min |
| May 24, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 63 min |
| May 24, 8:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 61 min |
| May 24, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 46 min |
| May 24, 9:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Comanche | 34 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cheyenne County3
- Sumner County3
- Grant County2
- Gray County2
- Ellsworth County2
- McPherson County2
- Kiowa County2
- Harper County2
- Cowley County2
- Stevens County1
- Finney County1
- Ford County1
- Barton County1
- Russell County1
- Lincoln County1
- Saline County1
- Rice County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Riley County1
- Sherman County1
- Rawlins County1
- Thomas County1
- Sheridan County1
- Graham County1
- Norton County1
- Phillips County1
- Rooks County1
- Clark County1
- Logan County1
- Gove County1
- Lane County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Kingman County1
- Barber County1
- Montgomery County1
- Comanche 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. Rebuilt daily.