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Tornado Warnings in Kansas, May 2025

35 tornado warnings in May 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 May 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
35
Busiest day
May 19, 202522 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 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

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.