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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 1998

39 tornado watches in 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
39
Busiest month
June18 tornado watches
Busiest day
June 8, 19983 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 29, 7:15 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 28 more6 hr
Mar 30, 3:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 14 more6 hr
Apr 6, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 24 more5 hr
Apr 14, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall, Mitchell and 5 more6 hr
Apr 14, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 33 more6 hr
Apr 14, 9:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 25 more6 hr
Apr 14, 11:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCherokee5 hr
May 6, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 16 more6 hr
May 8, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 8 more6 hr
May 11, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay and 34 more6 hr
May 14, 11:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 31 more6 hr
May 19, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman and 1 more6 hr
May 21, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDecatur, Graham, Norton, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks and 1 more6 hr
May 21, 11:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Doniphan6 hr
May 23, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCJohnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Wyandotte7 hr
May 24, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 23 more6 hr
May 24, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase and 28 more7 hr
May 24, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant and 18 more6 hr
Jun 7, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Scott and 4 more6 hr
Jun 8, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clay, Cloud, Comanche, Dickinson and 29 more6 hr
Jun 8, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 23 more6 hr
Jun 13, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud and 35 more6 hr
Jun 13, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Cherokee and 29 more4 hr
Jun 13, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jewell, Marshall, Nemaha and 3 more6 hr
Jun 13, 9:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChautauqua, Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery6 hr
Jun 14, 1:15 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic and 1 more6 hr
Jun 17, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 36 more7 hr
Jun 19, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 21 more6 hr
Jun 20, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 27 more6 hr
Jun 20, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Johnson and 4 more7 hr
Jun 23, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Geary, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall and 10 more6 hr
Jun 28, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 29 more6 hr
Jun 29, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 26 more6 hr
Jun 29, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDoniphan6 hr
Jun 29, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Douglas, Franklin and 9 more6 hr
Jun 29, 9:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCButler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey, Cowley, Dickinson and 19 more5 hr
Oct 4, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Comanche and 28 more7 hr
Oct 4, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey and 15 more7 hr
Oct 4, 11:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCherokee6 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. June 8, 19983tornado watches
  2. June 14, 19983tornado watches
  3. June 29, 19983tornado watches
  4. March 30, 19982tornado watches
  5. April 14, 19982tornado watches
  6. April 15, 19982tornado watches
  7. May 24, 19982tornado watches
  8. June 13, 19982tornado watches
  9. June 30, 19982tornado watches
  10. October 4, 19982tornado watches
  11. April 6, 19981tornado watches
  12. May 6, 19981tornado watches

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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.