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Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2020

26 tornado warnings in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
26
Busiest month
May15 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 22, 20207 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
Mar 30, 4:34 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCGrant, Stanton41 min
Mar 30, 4:48 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCGrant, Stanton16 min
Mar 30, 5:02 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCStevens24 min
Apr 28, 4:21 PM CDTTornado WarningICTChautauqua24 min
Apr 28, 5:37 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFCherokee, Crawford23 min
Apr 28, 5:57 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFCherokee33 min
May 14, 8:56 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon, Wabaunsee34 min
May 14, 8:59 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMorris18 min
May 14, 9:27 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon33 min
May 14, 9:55 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPCoffey, Lyon, Osage35 min
May 14, 11:04 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon26 min
May 21, 5:28 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDDCHamilton32 min
May 21, 7:07 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCKearny38 min
May 21, 8:32 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDDCFinney, Kearny20 min
May 21, 9:02 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCHaskell28 min
May 21, 9:48 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCGray, Haskell13 min
May 22, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMarshall32 min
May 22, 6:26 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMarshall34 min
May 22, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMarshall, Nemaha45 min
May 24, 6:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCStafford21 min
May 25, 2:23 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXDoniphan37 min
Jun 9, 6:26 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMarshall, Nemaha34 min
Jun 21, 1:34 PM CDTTornado WarningICTEllsworth21 min
Jul 1, 7:38 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCSeward31 min
Aug 14, 4:55 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDGreeley35 min
Aug 14, 7:24 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDJewell36 min

By county

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

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 22, 20207tornado warnings
  2. May 15, 20205tornado warnings
  3. March 30, 20203tornado warnings
  4. April 28, 20203tornado warnings
  5. May 21, 20201tornado warnings
  6. May 24, 20201tornado warnings
  7. May 25, 20201tornado warnings
  8. June 9, 20201tornado warnings
  9. June 21, 20201tornado warnings
  10. July 2, 20201tornado warnings
  11. August 14, 20201tornado warnings
  12. August 15, 20201tornado warnings

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. Rebuilt daily.