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Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2018

96 tornado warnings in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
96
Busiest month
May66 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 2, 201822 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 4:05 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDJewell, Smith25 min
May 1, 4:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCNess, Pawnee, Rush49 min
May 1, 4:27 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDJewell, Smith33 min
May 1, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDJewell19 min
May 1, 5:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEdwards27 min
May 1, 5:36 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton, Russell39 min
May 1, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDMitchell32 min
May 1, 5:58 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedTOPRepublic17 min
May 1, 6:07 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDMitchell38 min
May 1, 6:09 PM CDTTornado WarningICTEllsworth, Lincoln51 min
May 1, 6:10 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedTOPCloud, Ottawa50 min
May 1, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDMitchell30 min
May 1, 6:36 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCComanche24 min
May 1, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPCloud37 min
May 1, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningICTEllsworth, Lincoln48 min
May 1, 7:24 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedTOPClay, Cloud, Republic, Washington36 min
May 1, 7:25 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSaline20 min
May 1, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPOttawa34 min
May 1, 7:52 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay, Riley, Washington38 min
May 1, 7:54 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatTOPOttawa36 min
May 1, 8:01 PM CDTTornado Warning Considerable damage threatTOPClay, Riley, Washington34 min
May 1, 8:09 PM CDTTornado WarningICTLincoln19 min
May 1, 8:26 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay, Dickinson, Ottawa34 min
May 1, 8:26 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPCloud, Ottawa34 min
May 1, 8:29 PM CDTTornado WarningICTLincoln, Russell46 min
May 1, 8:58 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedTOPClay32 min
May 1, 9:25 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedTOPClay, Riley35 min
May 1, 9:54 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPPottawatomie, Riley36 min
May 1, 10:27 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMarshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie33 min
May 2, 2:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Kiowa25 min
May 2, 3:52 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPOttawa38 min
May 2, 4:11 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPCloud49 min
May 2, 4:13 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPOttawa47 min
May 2, 4:21 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPOttawa39 min
May 2, 4:29 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay, Cloud, Washington46 min
May 2, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay, Marshall, Riley, Washington47 min
May 2, 5:34 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMarshall, Pottawatomie, Riley41 min
May 2, 7:48 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPCoffey, Osage27 min
May 2, 8:12 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPAnderson, Coffey, Franklin, Osage33 min
May 2, 8:31 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPAnderson, Franklin29 min
May 2, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson, Miami29 min
May 2, 9:06 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXMiami24 min
May 2, 9:09 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson, Miami36 min
May 14, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley, Sumner48 min
May 14, 6:37 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley53 min
May 14, 8:58 PM CDTTornado WarningICTHarper, Sumner11 min
May 14, 9:44 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley31 min
May 14, 9:56 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley18 min
May 14, 10:16 PM CDTTornado WarningICTChautauqua, Cowley28 min
May 18, 7:28 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur32 min
May 18, 7:56 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur34 min
May 18, 7:57 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove, Sheridan18 min
May 18, 8:44 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDThomas16 min
May 18, 8:46 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDDCHamilton29 min
May 18, 9:00 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDDCHamilton, Kearny32 min
May 28, 2:07 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGraham23 min
May 28, 3:48 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDPhillips, Rooks27 min
May 28, 4:26 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove19 min
May 28, 5:48 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne8 min
May 28, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFinney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny36 min
May 28, 7:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCLane10 min
May 28, 8:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCHodgeman, Ness12 min
May 29, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord, Gray21 min
May 29, 5:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord16 min
May 29, 8:12 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPRepublic18 min
May 29, 8:26 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPRepublic, Washington19 min
Jun 11, 8:42 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPBrown, Nemaha48 min
Jun 11, 9:03 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPNemaha27 min
Jun 19, 6:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCMorton27 min
Jun 19, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDJewell, Smith33 min
Jun 19, 6:38 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne22 min
Jun 19, 6:52 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne23 min
Jun 19, 7:13 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne16 min
Jun 19, 7:39 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDCheyenne, Rawlins21 min
Jun 26, 6:38 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler52 min
Jun 26, 7:19 PM CDTTornado WarningICTGreenwood19 min
Jun 26, 8:27 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler48 min
Jun 30, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGraham35 min
Jun 30, 8:08 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDCheyenne19 min
Jun 30, 8:24 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGraham36 min
Jul 25, 5:26 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGraham, Norton14 min
Jul 26, 6:48 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSherman13 min
Jul 27, 8:54 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley, Wichita19 min
Jul 27, 8:56 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDWichita23 min
Jul 28, 10:54 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDRawlins12 min
Jul 30, 1:31 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSumner29 min
Jul 30, 1:43 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley47 min
Jul 30, 2:07 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley23 min
Aug 18, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley33 min
Aug 18, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley33 min
Aug 18, 7:54 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCGrant21 min
Aug 19, 4:40 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFCrawford35 min
Aug 31, 9:06 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDLogan24 min
Aug 31, 9:13 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove, Logan32 min
Aug 31, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove24 min
Oct 9, 12:34 PM CDTTornado WarningICTLabette, Montgomery17 min

By county

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

24 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 2, 201822tornado warnings
  2. May 1, 201815tornado warnings
  3. May 3, 20186tornado warnings
  4. May 19, 20186tornado warnings
  5. May 28, 20185tornado warnings
  6. May 15, 20184tornado warnings
  7. May 29, 20184tornado warnings
  8. June 19, 20184tornado warnings
  9. July 1, 20183tornado warnings
  10. July 30, 20183tornado warnings
  11. September 1, 20183tornado warnings
  12. May 14, 20182tornado warnings

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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.