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Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2021

65 tornado warnings in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
65
Busiest month
May37 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 24, 202114 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
Jan 30, 2:12 PM CSTTornado WarningICTLabette, Montgomery33 min
Jan 30, 3:45 PM CSTTornado WarningSGFCherokee30 min
Mar 15, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPOsage20 min
Mar 15, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson, Miami35 min
Mar 15, 4:26 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson34 min
May 8, 10:11 PM CDTTornado WarningICTEllsworth, Saline49 min
May 8, 10:11 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPPottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee21 min
May 24, 3:07 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDLogan, Wallace23 min
May 24, 3:08 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDLogan, Wallace27 min
May 24, 3:25 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSherman, Thomas50 min
May 24, 3:46 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDWallace12 min
May 24, 3:48 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDLogan, Wichita15 min
May 24, 4:10 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDThomas32 min
May 24, 4:21 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDThomas20 min
May 24, 4:36 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDThomas39 min
May 24, 5:20 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDRawlins, Thomas22 min
May 24, 5:46 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSheridan44 min
May 24, 6:18 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDDecatur, Sheridan42 min
May 24, 6:23 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDDCKearny37 min
May 24, 6:58 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur, Norton33 min
May 24, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCKearny31 min
May 24, 7:02 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove31 min
May 24, 7:20 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove25 min
May 24, 7:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFinney, Kearny48 min
May 24, 8:42 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFinney, Haskell33 min
May 26, 2:51 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton, Russell39 min
May 26, 3:02 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Rush43 min
May 26, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis16 min
May 26, 4:11 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton, Russell49 min
May 26, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton, Ellsworth, Russell46 min
May 26, 5:16 PM CDTTornado WarningICTEllsworth44 min
May 26, 5:20 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDDecatur, Rawlins40 min
May 26, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur, Rawlins45 min
May 26, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur48 min
May 26, 6:19 PM CDTTornado WarningICTEllsworth, Rice26 min
May 26, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningICTEllsworth, Rice35 min
May 26, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur48 min
May 26, 7:42 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan18 min
May 26, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDNorton31 min
May 27, 12:18 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPDickinson, Morris13 min
May 27, 12:20 AM CDTTornado WarningICTMarion25 min
May 27, 12:40 AM CDTTornado WarningICTButler, Cowley15 min
Jun 24, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMarshall30 min
Jun 24, 6:07 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMarshall23 min
Jun 24, 6:16 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMarshall, Nemaha29 min
Jun 24, 6:26 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMarshall, Nemaha34 min
Oct 12, 7:28 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDWallace15 min
Oct 12, 7:58 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDLogan, Wallace, Wichita21 min
Oct 12, 9:01 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas34 min
Oct 12, 9:19 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSheridan, Thomas23 min
Oct 12, 9:22 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCGray, Haskell, Meade, Seward23 min
Oct 12, 9:34 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCGray, Haskell26 min
Oct 12, 10:04 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord, Gray11 min
Oct 12, 10:14 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord31 min
Oct 12, 10:36 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord, Hodgeman24 min
Oct 12, 10:58 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Meade17 min
Oct 12, 11:13 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Ford, Kiowa32 min
Oct 13, 12:12 AM CDTTornado WarningDDCEdwards, Pawnee, Stafford18 min
Oct 24, 2:12 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedEAXDoniphan33 min
Dec 15, 3:29 PM CSTTornado WarningTOPDickinson, Geary, Riley13 min
Dec 15, 3:33 PM CSTTornado WarningTOPPottawatomie, Riley15 min
Dec 15, 3:57 PM CSTTornado WarningTOPJackson, Pottawatomie10 min
Dec 15, 4:10 PM CSTTornado WarningTOPNemaha, Pottawatomie20 min
Dec 15, 4:51 PM CSTTornado WarningEAXDoniphan39 min
Dec 15, 5:03 PM CSTTornado WarningEAXAtchison, Doniphan27 min

By county

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

11 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 24, 202114tornado warnings
  2. May 26, 202112tornado warnings
  3. October 13, 202112tornado warnings
  4. December 15, 20216tornado warnings
  5. May 27, 20215tornado warnings
  6. May 25, 20214tornado warnings
  7. June 24, 20214tornado warnings
  8. March 15, 20213tornado warnings
  9. January 30, 20212tornado warnings
  10. May 9, 20212tornado warnings
  11. October 24, 20211tornado 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.