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Tornado Warnings in Kansas, May 2017

57 tornado warnings in May 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
57
Busiest day
May 18, 201719 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 4:22 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSherman11 min
May 16, 3:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Meade24 min
May 16, 5:09 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Meade36 min
May 16, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Ford, Meade34 min
May 16, 6:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Kiowa46 min
May 16, 7:01 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEdwards, Kiowa, Pawnee44 min
May 16, 7:25 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee35 min
May 16, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee, Stafford34 min
May 16, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton29 min
May 16, 8:25 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton35 min
May 16, 8:47 PM CDTTornado WarningICTRussell28 min
May 18, 4:42 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCPawnee, Rush33 min
May 18, 4:51 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCBarber29 min
May 18, 4:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCKiowa25 min
May 18, 4:53 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedICTBarton52 min
May 18, 4:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCPawnee, Rush33 min
May 18, 4:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Comanche33 min
May 18, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCBarber22 min
May 18, 5:01 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton59 min
May 18, 5:07 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton, Ellsworth, Rice53 min
May 18, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Ford33 min
May 18, 5:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Ford31 min
May 18, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMorris, Wabaunsee30 min
May 18, 5:38 PM CDTTornado WarningICTEllsworth44 min
May 18, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton35 min
May 18, 5:59 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSaline61 min
May 18, 6:21 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Meade15 min
May 18, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPDickinson, Ottawa33 min
May 18, 6:37 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedTOPClay, Dickinson, Geary, Riley23 min
May 18, 6:58 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPGeary, Riley32 min
May 19, 3:55 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDDCBarber, Pratt35 min
May 19, 4:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCPratt40 min
May 19, 4:15 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedICTKingman, Reno60 min
May 19, 4:28 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCBarber, Pratt16 min
May 19, 5:04 PM CDTTornado WarningICTKingman40 min
May 19, 5:07 PM CDTTornado WarningICTKingman, Reno42 min
May 19, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningICTKingman, Reno48 min
May 19, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningICTHarvey, Sedgwick36 min
May 19, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMorris29 min
May 19, 8:27 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon33 min
May 25, 4:39 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne36 min
May 25, 6:21 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas24 min
May 25, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas17 min
May 26, 8:15 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDSherman17 min
May 26, 10:59 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSheridan, Thomas31 min
May 26, 11:19 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSheridan, Thomas41 min
May 26, 11:54 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan15 min
May 27, 12:49 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove26 min
May 27, 1:06 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove, Logan24 min
May 27, 1:13 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove17 min
May 27, 1:21 AM CDTTornado WarningDDCTrego39 min
May 27, 1:22 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove38 min
May 27, 1:45 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove30 min
May 27, 1:56 AM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Trego34 min
May 27, 2:05 AM CDTTornado WarningDDCNess, Trego40 min
May 27, 12:23 PM CDTTornado WarningICTNeosho12 min
May 31, 2:33 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler, Greenwood13 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

3 more counties

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.