Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings
Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2013
81 tornado warnings in 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 81
- Busiest month
- May64 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- May 19, 201320 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 50 min |
| Apr 8, 11:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 24 min |
| Apr 18, 1:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 48 min |
| May 8, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 36 min |
| May 8, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 34 min |
| May 18, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Trego | 26 min |
| May 18, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 37 min |
| May 18, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 29 min |
| May 18, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 30 min |
| May 18, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 33 min |
| May 18, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 50 min |
| May 18, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 28 min |
| May 18, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 20 min |
| May 18, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Osborne | 36 min |
| May 18, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 33 min |
| May 18, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 45 min |
| May 18, 8:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee | 23 min |
| May 18, 10:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Republic, Washington | 20 min |
| May 18, 10:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Washington | 33 min |
| May 18, 11:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 19 min |
| May 19, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner | 25 min |
| May 19, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 50 min |
| May 19, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 50 min |
| May 19, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick | 46 min |
| May 19, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 35 min |
| May 19, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Sumner | 47 min |
| May 19, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 36 min |
| May 19, 5:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon | 27 min |
| May 19, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 40 min |
| May 19, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk | 36 min |
| May 19, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Elk | 47 min |
| May 19, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Wilson, Woodson | 48 min |
| May 19, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Allen, Woodson | 42 min |
| May 19, 10:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 41 min |
| May 20, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Montgomery | 49 min |
| May 20, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 48 min |
| May 20, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Crawford | 33 min |
| May 27, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 26 min |
| May 27, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 33 min |
| May 27, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Smith | 33 min |
| May 27, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Jewell, Smith | 33 min |
| May 27, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Jewell | 29 min |
| May 27, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Jewell | 34 min |
| May 27, 9:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 27 min |
| May 27, 9:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 32 min |
| May 28, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 33 min |
| May 28, 4:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 42 min |
| May 28, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 50 min |
| May 28, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson, Nemaha | 26 min |
| May 28, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 29 min |
| May 28, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown | 34 min |
| May 28, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 39 min |
| May 28, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 31 min |
| May 28, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 49 min |
| May 28, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Rush | 27 min |
| May 28, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 24 min |
| May 29, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 25 min |
| May 29, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 36 min |
| May 29, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 45 min |
| May 29, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wichita | 35 min |
| May 29, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 46 min |
| May 29, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 30 min |
| May 29, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny | 25 min |
| May 29, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phillips | 20 min |
| May 31, 4:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 23 min |
| May 31, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 30 min |
| May 31, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 36 min |
| May 31, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette | 36 min |
| May 31, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 26 min |
| May 31, 8:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 24 min |
| May 31, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 25 min |
| May 31, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 30 min |
| Jun 4, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Kearny | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 36 min |
| Jun 17, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 24 min |
| Jun 22, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 29 min |
| Jul 25, 3:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 36 min |
| Jul 29, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Comanche | 31 min |
| Jul 29, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Comanche | 32 min |
| Aug 5, 1:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 41 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Montgomery County6
- Cherokee County5
- Ellis County5
- Sumner County5
- Nemaha County5
- Trego County4
- Labette County4
- Ottawa County4
- Logan County4
- Cheyenne County3
- Rush County3
- Pawnee County3
- Washington County3
- Sedgwick County3
- Cowley County3
- Jewell County3
- Gove County3
- Sheridan County3
- Hamilton County2
- Russell County2
- Ness County2
- Barton County2
- Jackson County2
- Butler County2
- Chautauqua County2
- Elk County2
- Woodson County2
- Wallace County2
- Sherman County2
- Smith County2
- Marshall County2
- Brown County2
- Thomas County2
- Wichita County2
- Kearny County2
- Greeley County2
- Comanche County2
- Rawlins County1
- Edwards County1
- Osborne County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20122014
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.