Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings / 2002
Tornado Warnings in Kansas, May 2002
77 tornado warnings in May 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 May 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 77
- Busiest day
- May 8, 200225 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kingman County7
- Russell County6
- Kiowa County6
- Smith County5
- Ford County5
- Edwards County4
- Pratt County4
- Barber County3
- Lincoln County3
- Saline County3
- Marion County3
- Sumner County3
- Clark County3
- Morris County3
- Barton County3
- Trego County2
- Ellsworth County2
- Cowley County2
- Pawnee County2
- Rice County2
- Dickinson County2
- Ellis County1
- Ness County1
- Rooks County1
- Osborne County1
- Ottawa County1
- Washington County1
- McPherson County1
- Harper County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Chase County1
- Wabaunsee County1
- Jefferson County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Chautauqua County1
- Cherokee County1
- Crawford County1
- Stafford County1
- Comanche County1
- Norton County1
1 more counties
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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.