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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 1997

26 tornado watches in 1997. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.

Tornado Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
26
Busiest month
May11 tornado watches
Busiest day
May 26, 19973 tornado watches

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
Mar 24, 3:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 36 more6 hr
Apr 20, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCherokee6 hr
Apr 29, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDecatur, Graham, Norton, Osborne, Phillips, Rawlins and 4 more6 hr
May 1, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFinney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 12 more6 hr
May 6, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFinney, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny, Meade and 4 more5 hr
May 7, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Butler, Chase, Comanche, Harper, Harvey and 11 more6 hr
May 7, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 14 more6 hr
May 22, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFinney, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 8 more7 hr
May 25, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley and 32 more7 hr
May 25, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 31 more6 hr
May 25, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBourbon, Johnson, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte4 hr
May 26, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 10 more6 hr
May 29, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 8 more6 hr
May 29, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Comanche, Harper, Sumner6 hr
Jun 11, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 20 more6 hr
Jun 11, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Coffey and 20 more5 hr
Jun 11, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDecatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 4 more4 hr
Jun 11, 9:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne and 5 more6 hr
Jun 24, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 33 more7 hr
Jun 25, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 6 more5 hr
Jun 29, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 14 more6 hr
Jul 6, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan and 8 more6 hr
Aug 21, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Lane and 11 more6 hr
Oct 8, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 28 more6 hr
Oct 12, 12:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny and 10 more6 hr
Oct 12, 6:30 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 30 more7 hr

By county

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

65 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 26, 19973tornado watches
  2. June 11, 19973tornado watches
  3. May 7, 19972tornado watches
  4. May 29, 19972tornado watches
  5. October 12, 19972tornado watches
  6. March 24, 19971tornado watches
  7. April 20, 19971tornado watches
  8. April 29, 19971tornado watches
  9. May 1, 19971tornado watches
  10. May 6, 19971tornado watches
  11. May 22, 19971tornado watches
  12. May 25, 19971tornado watches

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.