Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings / 2023

Tornado Warnings in Kansas, May 2023

52 tornado warnings in May 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 May 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
52
Busiest day
May 11, 202322 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 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

By county

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

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.