Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 1997
11 tornado watches in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 26, 19973 tornado watches
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny, Meade and 4 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Comanche, Harper, Harvey and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 14 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Finney, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 8 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley and 32 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 31 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Johnson, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte | 4 hr |
| May 26, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Harper, Sumner | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Sumner County5
- Finney County4
- Grant County4
- Haskell County4
- Kearny County4
- Morton County4
- Seward County4
- Stanton County4
- Stevens County4
- Butler County4
- Sedgwick County4
- Chautauqua County4
- Cowley County4
- Elk County4
- Gray County3
- Hamilton County3
- Hodgeman County3
- Meade County3
- Barber County3
- Comanche County3
- Harper County3
- Harvey County3
- Lyon County3
- McPherson County3
- Marion County3
- Allen County3
- Bourbon County3
- Greenwood County3
- Labette County3
- Montgomery County3
- Neosho County3
- Wilson County3
- Woodson County3
- Ford County2
- Greeley County2
- Ness County2
- Scott County2
- Wichita County2
- Chase County2
- Kingman County2
50 more counties
- Kiowa County2
- Pratt County2
- Reno County2
- Rice County2
- Stafford County2
- Anderson County2
- Cherokee County2
- Coffey County2
- Crawford County2
- Franklin County2
- Linn County2
- Miami County2
- Osage County2
- Ottawa County2
- Saline County2
- Lane County1
- Logan County1
- Wallace County1
- Barton County1
- Edwards County1
- Ellis County1
- Ellsworth County1
- Gove County1
- Graham County1
- Lincoln County1
- Mitchell County1
- Osborne County1
- Pawnee County1
- Rooks County1
- Rush County1
- Russell County1
- Sheridan County1
- Thomas County1
- Trego County1
- Clay County1
- Cloud County1
- Dickinson County1
- Douglas County1
- Geary County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Morris County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Riley County1
- Shawnee County1
- Wabaunsee County1
- Johnson County1
- Wyandotte County1
- Clark County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.