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Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2002
132 tornado warnings in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 132
- Busiest month
- May77 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- May 8, 200225 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 39 min |
| Apr 11, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey | 59 min |
| Apr 11, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman, Sedgwick | 63 min |
| Apr 11, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey | 62 min |
| Apr 17, 8:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 23 min |
| Apr 17, 10:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 43 min |
| Apr 17, 11:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris | 39 min |
| Apr 18, 12:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay | 44 min |
| Apr 18, 1:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Riley, Washington | 37 min |
| Apr 18, 1:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall | 43 min |
| Apr 18, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 48 min |
| Apr 18, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 46 min |
| Apr 18, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 41 min |
| Apr 18, 11:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chase | 28 min |
| Apr 19, 1:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 28 min |
| Apr 19, 1:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 2:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson | 40 min |
| Apr 27, 3:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown | 24 min |
| May 4, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 43 min |
| May 4, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 50 min |
| May 5, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 12 min |
| May 5, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 47 min |
| May 5, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Rooks | 47 min |
| May 5, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Smith | 45 min |
| May 5, 5:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 52 min |
| May 5, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Osborne | 49 min |
| May 5, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Smith | 44 min |
| May 5, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 63 min |
| May 5, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 65 min |
| May 5, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 64 min |
| May 5, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 62 min |
| May 5, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 60 min |
| May 5, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Saline | 56 min |
| May 5, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 67 min |
| May 5, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Saline | 58 min |
| May 5, 11:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Washington | 27 min |
| May 6, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Marion | 53 min |
| May 7, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 63 min |
| May 7, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford | 37 min |
| May 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 45 min |
| May 7, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 59 min |
| May 7, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford | 43 min |
| May 7, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 34 min |
| May 7, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 49 min |
| May 7, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 31 min |
| May 7, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 45 min |
| May 7, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 50 min |
| May 7, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford, Kiowa | 38 min |
| May 7, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 48 min |
| May 7, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Kiowa | 31 min |
| May 7, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 58 min |
| May 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 60 min |
| May 7, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 30 min |
| May 7, 11:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 28 min |
| May 7, 11:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 26 min |
| May 8, 12:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 62 min |
| May 8, 3:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 52 min |
| May 8, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Marion | 64 min |
| May 8, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 59 min |
| May 8, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 50 min |
| May 8, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Marion | 40 min |
| May 8, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chase | 39 min |
| May 8, 4:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Morris | 37 min |
| May 8, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 60 min |
| May 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 30 min |
| May 8, 6:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 24 min |
| May 8, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 44 min |
| May 8, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 44 min |
| May 8, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 62 min |
| May 8, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 54 min |
| May 8, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 38 min |
| May 11, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 41 min |
| May 11, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 36 min |
| May 11, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 33 min |
| May 11, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 46 min |
| May 11, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 39 min |
| May 11, 4:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Saline | 38 min |
| May 11, 5:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 29 min |
| May 11, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stafford | 24 min |
| May 11, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 32 min |
| May 11, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pratt | 28 min |
| May 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 45 min |
| May 11, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 47 min |
| May 11, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 46 min |
| May 16, 12:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 30 min |
| May 16, 1:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 27 min |
| May 16, 1:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 31 min |
| May 22, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Smith | 44 min |
| May 26, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 23 min |
| May 26, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Smith | 65 min |
| May 26, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Norton | 62 min |
| May 26, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 45 min |
| May 26, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Smith | 63 min |
| May 26, 9:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Jewell | 67 min |
| May 26, 9:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 50 min |
| Jun 10, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 23 min |
| Jun 10, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 2:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur | 25 min |
| Jun 11, 2:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Lincoln | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 41 min |
| Jun 11, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 1:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Rooks | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 66 min |
| Jun 12, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 66 min |
| Jun 12, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 52 min |
| Jun 12, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Neosho, Wilson | 65 min |
| Jun 12, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Neosho | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette | 51 min |
| Jun 15, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Haskell | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Haskell | 28 min |
| Jun 19, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 65 min |
| Jul 28, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Jewell | 61 min |
| Aug 11, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 44 min |
| Aug 11, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 47 min |
| Aug 11, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 43 min |
| Aug 12, 12:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 39 min |
| Aug 12, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 51 min |
| Aug 12, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark | 28 min |
| Aug 12, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 27 min |
| Aug 12, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 35 min |
| Aug 12, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 47 min |
| Aug 26, 4:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 39 min |
| Aug 26, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 50 min |
| Aug 31, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 50 min |
| Dec 18, 12:38 AM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette | 37 min |
| Dec 18, 12:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 46 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kingman County10
- Russell County6
- Kiowa County6
- Dickinson County5
- McPherson County5
- Lincoln County5
- Smith County5
- Ford County5
- Cowley County5
- Clark County5
- Morris County4
- Sumner County4
- Edwards County4
- Pratt County4
- Barton County4
- Rice County4
- Reno County3
- Barber County3
- Rooks County3
- Saline County3
- Ellsworth County3
- Marion County3
- Cheyenne County3
- Harvey County2
- Sedgwick County2
- Clay County2
- Washington County2
- Chase County2
- Ottawa County2
- Trego County2
- Harper County2
- Chautauqua County2
- Cherokee County2
- Pawnee County2
- Norton County2
- Jewell County2
- Decatur County2
- Neosho County2
- Labette County2
- Haskell County2
22 more counties
- Logan County2
- Rawlins County2
- Geary County1
- Riley County1
- Marshall County1
- Brown County1
- Ellis County1
- Ness County1
- Osborne County1
- Wabaunsee County1
- Jefferson County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Crawford County1
- Stafford County1
- Comanche County1
- Gray County1
- Phillips County1
- Butler County1
- Wilson County1
- Finney County1
- Sherman 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.