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Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2019
169 tornado warnings in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 169
- Busiest month
- May105 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- May 28, 201924 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 9:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 52 min |
| Apr 28, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 20 min |
| Apr 28, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 24 min |
| Apr 28, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 29 min |
| Apr 28, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 18 min |
| Apr 29, 2:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 28 min |
| Apr 29, 3:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 20 min |
| Apr 30, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 22 min |
| Apr 30, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Crawford | 14 min |
| May 5, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 23 min |
| May 5, 6:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Rice | 39 min |
| May 5, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 36 min |
| May 5, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno, Rice | 52 min |
| May 5, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 32 min |
| May 5, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 45 min |
| May 5, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stafford | 30 min |
| May 5, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno, Rice | 46 min |
| May 5, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 28 min |
| May 5, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick | 45 min |
| May 5, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 39 min |
| May 5, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno, Sedgwick | 50 min |
| May 6, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 18 min |
| May 6, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion | 34 min |
| May 6, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray, Haskell | 31 min |
| May 6, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 30 min |
| May 6, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 31 min |
| May 6, 9:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards | 24 min |
| May 6, 10:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards | 15 min |
| May 7, 11:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 30 min |
| May 17, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 30 min |
| May 17, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 34 min |
| May 17, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 32 min |
| May 17, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade | 38 min |
| May 17, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Meade | 42 min |
| May 17, 8:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 23 min |
| May 17, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford | 33 min |
| May 17, 9:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 24 min |
| May 17, 9:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford | 50 min |
| May 17, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 24 min |
| May 17, 10:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford | 38 min |
| May 17, 10:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 50 min |
| May 17, 11:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stafford | 25 min |
| May 18, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Rice | 35 min |
| May 18, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber | 23 min |
| May 20, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 26 min |
| May 20, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 26 min |
| May 21, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary | 32 min |
| May 21, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Riley | 34 min |
| May 21, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley | 27 min |
| May 21, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 32 min |
| May 21, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie | 33 min |
| May 21, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee | 40 min |
| May 21, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee | 35 min |
| May 21, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 36 min |
| May 21, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Atchison | 25 min |
| May 21, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson | 24 min |
| May 21, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 30 min |
| May 21, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 25 min |
| May 21, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson | 23 min |
| May 21, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 21 min |
| May 21, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 34 min |
| May 21, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Doniphan | 28 min |
| May 22, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 48 min |
| May 22, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Bourbon, Crawford | 43 min |
| May 22, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 41 min |
| May 22, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 51 min |
| May 23, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Meade | 36 min |
| May 23, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford, Gray, Meade | 25 min |
| May 23, 9:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 42 min |
| May 23, 10:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 37 min |
| May 23, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Comanche | 45 min |
| May 24, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 39 min |
| May 24, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon | 50 min |
| May 24, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chase, Greenwood | 36 min |
| May 24, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 33 min |
| May 24, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Greenwood | 43 min |
| May 24, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 33 min |
| May 24, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey, Osage | 18 min |
| May 24, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson | 30 min |
| May 26, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 36 min |
| May 26, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas | 31 min |
| May 26, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas | 21 min |
| May 27, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Rooks | 24 min |
| May 27, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 37 min |
| May 27, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 15 min |
| May 27, 11:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 19 min |
| May 28, 12:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 32 min |
| May 28, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 41 min |
| May 28, 4:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 51 min |
| May 28, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Russell | 34 min |
| May 28, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Osborne | 27 min |
| May 28, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Osborne | 35 min |
| May 28, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Osage | 50 min |
| May 28, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne | 32 min |
| May 28, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 49 min |
| May 28, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Mitchell, Osborne | 38 min |
| May 28, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell | 35 min |
| May 28, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas | 32 min |
| May 28, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth | 28 min |
| May 28, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas | 25 min |
| May 28, 6:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 39 min |
| May 28, 6:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 39 min |
| May 28, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell | 37 min |
| May 28, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 42 min |
| May 28, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 37 min |
| May 28, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis | 23 min |
| May 28, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Trego | 43 min |
| May 28, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Wyandotte | 29 min |
| May 28, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Washington | 30 min |
| May 28, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Washington | 33 min |
| May 28, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay, Riley | 40 min |
| May 28, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 33 min |
| May 28, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 19 min |
| May 28, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 9 min |
| Jun 8, 4:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 37 min |
| Jun 8, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 26 min |
| Jun 8, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan, Sherman, Thomas | 34 min |
| Jun 8, 9:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan, Sherman, Thomas | 39 min |
| Jun 8, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 10:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 10:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 38 min |
| Jun 8, 10:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 11:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 18 min |
| Jun 8, 11:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 23 min |
| Jun 18, 1:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 36 min |
| Jun 18, 2:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards, Pawnee | 34 min |
| Jun 18, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 48 min |
| Jun 21, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 31 min |
| Jun 21, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 3:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper | 14 min |
| Jun 23, 3:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 20 min |
| Jun 23, 4:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 4:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 34 min |
| Jun 23, 5:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 47 min |
| Jul 5, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Rush | 44 min |
| Jul 10, 7:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson, Nemaha | 17 min |
| Aug 11, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 28 min |
| Aug 13, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 32 min |
| Aug 13, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 23 min |
| Aug 15, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary, Wabaunsee | 37 min |
| Aug 15, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 43 min |
| Aug 15, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 18 min |
| Aug 15, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 36 min |
| Aug 15, 9:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage, Wabaunsee | 22 min |
| Aug 15, 9:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee | 27 min |
| Aug 15, 9:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage, Wabaunsee | 29 min |
| Aug 17, 1:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 22 min |
| Aug 24, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 26 min |
| Aug 24, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth | 45 min |
| Aug 24, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Graham | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 9:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 43 min |
| Aug 26, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 52 min |
| Sep 9, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 14 min |
| Sep 21, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 24 min |
| Sep 21, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Elk, Wilson | 49 min |
| Sep 24, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay, Washington | 36 min |
| Sep 24, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay, Riley | 36 min |
| Sep 24, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay, Pottawatomie, Riley | 32 min |
| Sep 24, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 31 min |
| Sep 27, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Osage | 32 min |
| Sep 27, 8:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Greenwood, Marion | 41 min |
| Oct 1, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Washington | 20 min |
| Oct 1, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary | 29 min |
| Oct 1, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary, Riley | 36 min |
| Oct 1, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 22 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Logan County12
- Meade County9
- Edwards County9
- Thomas County8
- Osage County8
- Nemaha County8
- Lyon County7
- Butler County7
- Riley County7
- Wabaunsee County7
- Sherman County6
- Ford County6
- Pawnee County6
- Cherokee County6
- Geary County6
- Clay County6
- Reno County5
- Stafford County5
- Rawlins County5
- Dickinson County5
- Pottawatomie County5
- Marshall County5
- Jackson County5
- Osborne County5
- Washington County5
- Franklin County4
- Cheyenne County4
- Crawford County4
- Barton County4
- Rice County4
- Clark County4
- Cowley County4
- Johnson County4
- Republic County4
- Mitchell County4
- Douglas County4
- Wallace County3
- Hodgeman County3
- Ness County3
- Coffey County3
45 more counties
- Sedgwick County3
- Gray County3
- Russell County3
- Rooks County3
- Atchison County3
- Doniphan County3
- Comanche County3
- Greenwood County3
- Sheridan County3
- Ellis County3
- Jewell County3
- Anderson County2
- Harvey County2
- Sumner County2
- Marion County2
- Kiowa County2
- Barber County2
- Shawnee County2
- Chase County2
- Leavenworth County2
- Trego County2
- Wyandotte County2
- Morris County2
- Kingman County2
- Harper County2
- Ellsworth County2
- Lane County1
- Scott County1
- Labette County1
- Montgomery County1
- McPherson County1
- Finney County1
- Haskell County1
- Phillips County1
- Smith County1
- Jefferson County1
- Brown County1
- Bourbon County1
- Decatur County1
- Wichita County1
- Rush County1
- Graham County1
- Elk County1
- Wilson County1
- Pratt County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.