Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Kansas, April 1998
5 tornado watches in April 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 April 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- April 14, 19982 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 24 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall, Mitchell and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 25 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 11:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County2
- Cloud County2
- Jewell County2
- Lincoln County2
- Mitchell County2
- Osborne County2
- Ottawa County2
- Republic County2
- Smith County2
- Washington County2
- Marshall County2
- Allen County2
- Anderson County2
- Atchison County2
- Bourbon County2
- Butler County2
- Chase County2
- Chautauqua County2
- Cherokee County2
- Coffey County2
- Cowley County2
- Crawford County2
- Doniphan County2
- Douglas County2
- Elk County2
- Franklin County2
- Greenwood County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Labette County2
- Leavenworth County2
- Linn County2
- Lyon County2
- Miami County2
- Montgomery County2
- Neosho County2
- Osage County2
- Shawnee County2
- Wabaunsee County2
- Wilson County2
30 more counties
- Woodson County2
- Wyandotte County2
- Barber County1
- Barton County1
- Clark County1
- Comanche County1
- Edwards County1
- Ellis County1
- Ellsworth County1
- Ford County1
- Hodgeman County1
- Kingman County1
- Kiowa County1
- McPherson County1
- Pawnee County1
- Pratt County1
- Reno County1
- Rice County1
- Rush County1
- Russell County1
- Saline County1
- Stafford County1
- Brown County1
- Geary County1
- Jackson County1
- Morris County1
- Nemaha County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Riley County1
- Sumner 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.