Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 1998
11 tornado watches in May 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 May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 24, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 11, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay and 34 more | 6 hr |
| May 14, 11:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 31 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Doniphan | 6 hr |
| May 23, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Wyandotte | 7 hr |
| May 24, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 23 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase and 28 more | 7 hr |
| May 24, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant and 18 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Comanche County5
- Kiowa County5
- Barber County4
- Clark County4
- Harper County4
- Kingman County4
- Pratt County4
- Sedgwick County4
- Sumner County4
- Butler County3
- Cowley County3
- Ford County3
- Grant County3
- Greeley County3
- Hamilton County3
- Haskell County3
- Kearny County3
- Morton County3
- Seward County3
- Stanton County3
- Stevens County3
- Wichita County3
- Barton County3
- Dickinson County3
- Ellsworth County3
- Harvey County3
- McPherson County3
- Marion County3
- Reno County3
- Rice County3
- Saline County3
- Stafford County3
- Edwards County3
- Pawnee County3
- Rush County3
- Allen County2
- Chautauqua County2
- Elk County2
- Labette County2
- Montgomery County2
61 more counties
- Neosho County2
- Wilson County2
- Cheyenne County2
- Logan County2
- Sherman County2
- Wallace County2
- Brown County2
- Chase County2
- Clay County2
- Cloud County2
- Geary County2
- Jewell County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyon County2
- Marshall County2
- Mitchell County2
- Morris County2
- Ottawa County2
- Republic County2
- Riley County2
- Washington County2
- Ellis County2
- Osborne County2
- Smith County2
- Decatur County2
- Gove County2
- Finney County2
- Gray County2
- Hodgeman County2
- Lane County2
- Meade County2
- Ness County2
- Scott County2
- Bourbon County1
- Cherokee County1
- Crawford County1
- Jackson County1
- Nemaha County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Shawnee County1
- Wabaunsee County1
- Russell County1
- Rawlins County1
- Sheridan County1
- Thomas County1
- Graham County1
- Norton County1
- Phillips County1
- Rooks County1
- Doniphan County1
- Johnson County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Miami County1
- Wyandotte County1
- Trego County1
- Anderson County1
- Coffey County1
- Franklin County1
- Greenwood County1
- Osage County1
- Woodson 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.