Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings / 2003
Tornado Warnings in Kansas, May 2003
63 tornado warnings in May 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 63
- Busiest day
- May 8, 200317 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 46 min |
| Apr 30, 9:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 10:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 36 min |
| Apr 30, 10:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 10:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 51 min |
| May 4, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 45 min |
| May 4, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Wyandotte | 43 min |
| May 4, 4:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette, Neosho | 33 min |
| May 4, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Linn, Miami | 40 min |
| May 4, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Crawford | 55 min |
| May 4, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Miami | 61 min |
| May 4, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette | 32 min |
| May 4, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 60 min |
| May 6, 10:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon | 21 min |
| May 6, 3:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 48 min |
| May 6, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Allen | 65 min |
| May 6, 4:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 58 min |
| May 8, 5:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary, Riley | 26 min |
| May 8, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 66 min |
| May 8, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic, Washington | 40 min |
| May 8, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Washington | 34 min |
| May 8, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Washington | 34 min |
| May 8, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall | 33 min |
| May 8, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary | 44 min |
| May 8, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 67 min |
| May 8, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 49 min |
| May 8, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 63 min |
| May 8, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall | 39 min |
| May 8, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 47 min |
| May 8, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Osage | 46 min |
| May 8, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey | 52 min |
| May 8, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Woodson | 62 min |
| May 8, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 46 min |
| May 8, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 51 min |
| May 8, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson | 42 min |
| May 8, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Allen | 61 min |
| May 8, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Anderson | 39 min |
| May 8, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Atchison, Leavenworth | 41 min |
| May 8, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Linn | 53 min |
| May 8, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas | 22 min |
| May 8, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas | 21 min |
| May 8, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas | 19 min |
| May 8, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 17 min |
| May 8, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 46 min |
| May 8, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette | 56 min |
| May 8, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Linn | 63 min |
| May 8, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 57 min |
| May 10, 2:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey | 52 min |
| May 10, 2:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 58 min |
| May 10, 2:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 65 min |
| May 10, 3:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon | 53 min |
| May 10, 4:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin | 61 min |
| May 15, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wichita | 52 min |
| May 15, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Haskell, Seward | 28 min |
| May 15, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward | 44 min |
| May 15, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 42 min |
| May 15, 8:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Seward | 39 min |
| May 15, 9:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 42 min |
| May 15, 10:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Meade | 26 min |
| May 15, 10:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 23 min |
| May 15, 10:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 43 min |
| May 15, 11:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Meade | 38 min |
| May 24, 1:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Gray | 46 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Meade County7
- Douglas County4
- Clark County4
- Cowley County3
- Labette County3
- Linn County3
- Geary County3
- Washington County3
- Coffey County3
- Seward County3
- Chautauqua County2
- Leavenworth County2
- Miami County2
- Cherokee County2
- Lyon County2
- Bourbon County2
- Allen County2
- Riley County2
- Cloud County2
- Republic County2
- Marshall County2
- Butler County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Wabaunsee County2
- Jackson County2
- Franklin County2
- Jefferson County2
- Anderson County2
- Ford County2
- Wyandotte County1
- Neosho County1
- Crawford County1
- Greenwood County1
- Osage County1
- Woodson County1
- Shawnee County1
- Atchison County1
- Montgomery County1
- Harvey County1
- Chase County1
4 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.