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Tornado Warnings in Kansas, May 2021

37 tornado warnings in May 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 May 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
37
Busiest day
May 24, 202114 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 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

By county

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

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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.