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Tornado Warnings in Kansas, May 2026

32 tornado warnings in May 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
32
Busiest day
May 18, 202620 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 16, 6:38 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSherman37 min
May 16, 8:03 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSheridan27 min
May 16, 8:22 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPRepublic, Washington38 min
May 16, 9:09 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPWashington18 min
May 16, 9:28 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDPhillips32 min
May 17, 12:26 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPMarshall, Nemaha19 min
May 17, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSherman, Wallace29 min
May 17, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningICTLincoln39 min
May 17, 7:38 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPOttawa26 min
May 17, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMarshall, Washington29 min
May 18, 1:55 PM CDTTornado WarningICTLincoln40 min
May 18, 2:17 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPOttawa43 min
May 18, 2:21 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPCloud, Republic, Washington39 min
May 18, 2:28 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPWashington32 min
May 18, 2:50 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPCloud, Ottawa40 min
May 18, 2:55 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPRepublic, Washington38 min
May 18, 3:22 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay, Cloud, Washington21 min
May 18, 4:02 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPWashington29 min
May 18, 4:04 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay, Cloud, Ottawa56 min
May 18, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay, Marshall, Riley, Washington45 min
May 18, 4:33 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay, Dickinson, Ottawa42 min
May 18, 5:07 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedTOPMarshall, Washington53 min
May 18, 5:11 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay, Riley, Washington12 min
May 18, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay, Geary, Riley30 min
May 18, 5:42 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay, Pottawatomie, Riley27 min
May 18, 5:51 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedTOPMarshall, Nemaha54 min
May 18, 6:49 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPBrown, Nemaha26 min
May 18, 7:22 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPJackson23 min
May 18, 7:47 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon, Morris, Wabaunsee28 min
May 18, 7:56 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon, Wabaunsee19 min
May 18, 8:08 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPOsage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee22 min
May 30, 3:57 PM CDTTornado WarningICTNeosho23 min

By county

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

Nearby

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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.