Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings

Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2023

105 tornado warnings in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
105
Busiest month
May52 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 11, 202322 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
Feb 26, 5:13 PM CSTTornado WarningDDCFinney, Gray17 min
Feb 26, 5:26 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedDDCFinney, Hodgeman, Lane, Ness19 min
Feb 26, 5:32 PM CSTTornado WarningDDCFord, Gray13 min
Feb 26, 5:35 PM CSTTornado WarningDDCMeade10 min
Feb 26, 5:44 PM CSTTornado WarningDDCFord, Gray, Hodgeman16 min
Feb 26, 5:50 PM CSTTornado WarningDDCHodgeman10 min
Feb 26, 5:51 PM CSTTornado WarningDDCHodgeman9 min
Feb 26, 5:52 PM CSTTornado WarningDDCClark, Meade23 min
Feb 26, 6:04 PM CSTTornado WarningDDCFord, Hodgeman11 min
Feb 26, 6:05 PM CSTTornado WarningDDCHodgeman, Ness10 min
Feb 26, 8:36 PM CSTTornado WarningICTHarper24 min
Feb 26, 9:40 PM CSTTornado WarningICTSumner20 min
Feb 26, 10:12 PM CSTTornado WarningICTButler18 min
Apr 19, 8:06 PM CDTTornado WarningICTChase39 min
Apr 19, 8:39 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedTOPLyon, Morris50 min
Apr 19, 8:41 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedICTChase32 min
Apr 19, 8:58 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedICTChase15 min
Apr 19, 9:25 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon, Osage17 min
Apr 20, 2:12 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay19 min
Apr 20, 2:39 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPPottawatomie, Riley36 min
Apr 20, 2:59 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPMarshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie31 min
May 4, 9:01 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCLane, Ness44 min
May 7, 7:20 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDPhillips40 min
May 9, 9:55 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDGraham, Norton35 min
May 9, 10:06 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDNorton24 min
May 9, 10:29 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDGraham31 min
May 9, 10:58 AM CDTTornado WarningGIDRooks32 min
May 9, 11:04 AM CDTTornado WarningGIDRooks26 min
May 9, 11:54 AM CDTTornado WarningICTRussell36 min
May 9, 11:56 AM CDTTornado WarningGIDJewell, Mitchell19 min
May 9, 1:05 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPCloud, Ottawa25 min
May 9, 1:25 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay20 min
May 10, 4:33 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley, Wallace15 min
May 10, 4:41 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur, Rawlins19 min
May 10, 5:14 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur, Sheridan46 min
May 10, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur, Norton19 min
May 10, 7:44 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGraham, Sheridan46 min
May 11, 12:56 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Sherman16 min
May 11, 1:35 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins25 min
May 11, 1:38 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne22 min
May 11, 1:59 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDRawlins31 min
May 11, 2:23 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne22 min
May 11, 2:55 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSherman20 min
May 11, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDRawlins, Thomas30 min
May 11, 3:26 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove19 min
May 11, 3:56 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDRawlins19 min
May 11, 4:01 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDThomas14 min
May 11, 4:13 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDRawlins17 min
May 11, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDWallace19 min
May 11, 5:51 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDLogan, Wallace28 min
May 11, 5:57 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDWallace21 min
May 11, 6:04 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDWallace26 min
May 11, 6:09 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDNorton8 min
May 11, 6:20 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSherman, Wallace40 min
May 11, 6:28 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDLogan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace47 min
May 11, 6:37 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSherman23 min
May 11, 6:41 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDSherman21 min
May 11, 6:41 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDSherman19 min
May 11, 7:17 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDLogan, Thomas31 min
May 11, 7:31 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDRawlins, Thomas29 min
May 12, 7:00 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedTOPBrown30 min
May 12, 7:01 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPBrown29 min
May 12, 7:13 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPJackson32 min
May 12, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPBrown17 min
May 12, 7:40 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedTOPBrown35 min
May 12, 7:44 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedTOPJackson16 min
May 12, 8:35 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPBrown25 min
May 28, 5:13 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDNorton32 min
May 28, 5:39 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDNorton23 min
May 28, 6:07 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur, Norton38 min
May 28, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur, Norton50 min
May 28, 7:22 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDNorton38 min
May 28, 9:23 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGraham16 min
Jun 16, 8:38 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSherman, Wallace26 min
Jun 17, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFord, Hodgeman29 min
Jun 17, 9:40 PM CDTTornado WarningICTHarper6 min
Jun 17, 10:23 PM CDTTornado WarningICTHarvey, Sedgwick19 min
Jun 17, 10:48 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley, Sumner10 min
Jun 17, 11:01 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler, Sedgwick16 min
Jun 17, 11:18 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler, Sedgwick27 min
Jun 23, 7:30 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDDCHamilton21 min
Jun 23, 8:17 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCHamilton, Stanton28 min
Jun 23, 8:33 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDDCMorton27 min
Jun 23, 8:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCHamilton, Stanton34 min
Jun 23, 8:54 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDDCMorton36 min
Jun 23, 9:11 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDDCGrant, Stanton39 min
Jul 14, 2:31 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPDouglas, Jefferson29 min
Jul 16, 4:10 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDOsborne35 min
Jul 16, 5:11 PM CDTTornado WarningICTRussell19 min
Jul 16, 5:59 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton20 min
Jul 16, 6:03 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton27 min
Jul 16, 7:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEdwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford19 min
Jul 17, 5:21 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Kiowa39 min
Jul 17, 5:54 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Ford, Kiowa51 min
Jul 20, 4:31 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDDCFinney, Gray29 min
Jul 20, 11:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFinney, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny, Meade24 min
Aug 5, 8:23 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGraham26 min
Aug 8, 10:20 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSherman25 min
Aug 13, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon30 min
Aug 13, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPCoffey20 min
Sep 21, 8:52 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDNorton23 min
Sep 21, 9:50 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDPhillips25 min
Oct 3, 3:49 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur26 min
Oct 3, 4:20 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDNorton25 min
Oct 3, 4:49 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove26 min

By county

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

19 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 11, 202322tornado warnings
  2. May 9, 20239tornado warnings
  3. February 26, 20238tornado warnings
  4. April 20, 20238tornado warnings
  5. May 13, 20237tornado warnings
  6. June 18, 20236tornado warnings
  7. June 24, 20236tornado warnings
  8. February 27, 20235tornado warnings
  9. May 10, 20234tornado warnings
  10. May 28, 20234tornado warnings
  11. July 16, 20234tornado warnings
  12. July 17, 20233tornado warnings

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20222024

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.