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Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2025

68 tornado warnings in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
68
Busiest month
May35 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 19, 202522 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
Apr 1, 8:53 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPOttawa22 min
Apr 1, 8:55 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton, Ellsworth, Rice50 min
Apr 1, 9:06 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPDickinson, Ottawa24 min
Apr 1, 9:27 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay, Dickinson, Geary33 min
Apr 1, 9:31 PM CDTTornado WarningICTEllsworth, McPherson, Rice, Saline59 min
Apr 1, 10:08 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSaline52 min
Apr 1, 10:26 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedTOPDickinson, Ottawa34 min
Apr 1, 10:55 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay, Dickinson20 min
Apr 1, 11:33 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton, Rice27 min
Apr 2, 12:01 AM CDTTornado WarningICTEllsworth, McPherson, Saline29 min
Apr 2, 12:42 AM CDTTornado WarningICTReno33 min
Apr 2, 7:16 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFBourbon, Crawford29 min
Apr 2, 8:11 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFCherokee34 min
Apr 20, 2:01 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFCherokee29 min
Apr 23, 4:50 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPJackson, Jefferson, Shawnee25 min
Apr 23, 4:56 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDLogan, Thomas19 min
Apr 23, 5:13 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDLogan, Thomas32 min
Apr 23, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCLane, Scott35 min
Apr 28, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPDickinson13 min
May 18, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita30 min
May 18, 5:13 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne32 min
May 18, 5:18 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Sherman27 min
May 18, 5:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCScott28 min
May 18, 5:38 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDGove, Logan37 min
May 18, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne34 min
May 18, 5:44 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne15 min
May 18, 5:45 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDDCScott45 min
May 18, 5:51 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDOsborne24 min
May 18, 6:11 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDGove, Logan34 min
May 18, 6:15 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDGove, Logan30 min
May 18, 6:29 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne31 min
May 18, 6:38 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove, Sheridan37 min
May 18, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSheridan20 min
May 18, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove, Sheridan15 min
May 18, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEdwards27 min
May 18, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne34 min
May 18, 7:34 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne26 min
May 18, 7:36 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatDDCEdwards, Pawnee24 min
May 18, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDRooks3 min
May 18, 7:56 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDDCPawnee34 min
May 18, 8:37 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton23 min
May 18, 9:19 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark, Comanche, Kiowa26 min
May 18, 9:32 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatDDCEdwards, Kiowa43 min
May 18, 9:48 PM CDTTornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threatDDCKiowa42 min
May 18, 10:10 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDDCKiowa, Pratt28 min
May 18, 10:20 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatDDCEdwards, Kiowa, Pratt40 min
May 18, 10:52 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCPratt, Stafford38 min
May 18, 11:21 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatICTReno39 min
May 18, 11:23 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatDDCPratt, Stafford20 min
May 18, 11:50 PM CDTTornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threatICTReno25 min
May 19, 12:08 AM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatICTReno, Rice27 min
May 19, 5:21 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFBourbon24 min
May 19, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFBourbon30 min
May 19, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPWabaunsee18 min
Jun 3, 1:45 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson, Miami15 min
Jun 3, 2:08 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson37 min
Jun 5, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCStanton30 min
Jun 5, 4:26 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDDCGrant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens34 min
Jun 16, 7:53 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins33 min
Jun 17, 4:41 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedICTHarper, Kingman23 min
Jun 30, 2:02 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDDecatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan28 min
Jun 30, 2:25 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDGraham32 min
Aug 3, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove12 min
Aug 3, 5:29 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley11 min
Aug 3, 5:39 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley20 min
Aug 3, 6:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCHamilton24 min
Aug 9, 10:46 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDPhillips14 min
Sep 8, 5:22 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCClark38 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 19, 202522tornado warnings
  2. April 2, 202513tornado warnings
  3. May 18, 202513tornado warnings
  4. April 23, 20254tornado warnings
  5. August 3, 20254tornado warnings
  6. June 3, 20252tornado warnings
  7. June 5, 20252tornado warnings
  8. June 17, 20252tornado warnings
  9. June 30, 20252tornado warnings
  10. April 20, 20251tornado warnings
  11. April 28, 20251tornado warnings
  12. August 10, 20251tornado 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.