Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings / 2018

Tornado Warnings in Kansas, May 2018

66 tornado warnings in May 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 May 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
66
Busiest day
May 2, 201822 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 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

By county

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

11 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.