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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 1999
28 tornado watches in 1999. 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 1999. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 28
- Busiest month
- May12 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 5, 19993 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 3:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Harper, Kingman and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Harper, Kingman and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 8:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 11:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 36 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 8, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Doniphan | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 3, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Cowley and 28 more | 5 hr |
| May 4, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 22 more | 5 hr |
| May 4, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 14, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas | 6 hr |
| May 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 28 more | 6 hr |
| May 16, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Elk and 9 more | 7 hr |
| May 16, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 20, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Ford, Gray, Haskell and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant and 18 more | 4 hr |
| May 31, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Meade and 4 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 2, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jewell, Norton, Phillips, Smith | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 26, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Grant, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stanton and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Ford and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Ford, Grant, Gray and 10 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk and 4 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Sumner County12
- Barber County11
- Cowley County11
- Elk County10
- Harper County10
- Kingman County10
- Sedgwick County10
- Chautauqua County9
- Butler County8
- Ford County8
- Gray County8
- Haskell County8
- Meade County8
- Seward County8
- Chase County7
- Greenwood County7
- Marion County7
- Clark County7
- Grant County7
- Stevens County7
- Wilson County6
- Lyon County6
- Montgomery County6
- Morris County6
- Harvey County6
- Pratt County6
- Reno County6
- Comanche County6
- Kiowa County6
- Morton County6
- Stanton County6
- Cherokee County5
- Crawford County5
- Geary County5
- Labette County5
- Riley County5
- McPherson County5
- Rice County5
- Sherman County5
- Thomas County5
65 more counties
- Finney County5
- Kearny County5
- Allen County4
- Anderson County4
- Bourbon County4
- Coffey County4
- Douglas County4
- Franklin County4
- Johnson County4
- Miami County4
- Neosho County4
- Osage County4
- Pottawatomie County4
- Wabaunsee County4
- Woodson County4
- Clay County4
- Dickinson County4
- Washington County4
- Cloud County4
- Ellsworth County4
- Jewell County4
- Ottawa County4
- Republic County4
- Saline County4
- Phillips County4
- Cheyenne County4
- Decatur County4
- Rawlins County4
- Sheridan County4
- Norton County4
- Edwards County4
- Hamilton County4
- Hodgeman County4
- Lane County4
- Ness County4
- Scott County4
- Wichita County4
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Leavenworth County3
- Linn County3
- Shawnee County3
- Doniphan County3
- Marshall County3
- Nemaha County3
- Lincoln County3
- Mitchell County3
- Stafford County3
- Rooks County3
- Smith County3
- Ellis County3
- Gove County3
- Graham County3
- Logan County3
- Trego County3
- Wallace County3
- Greeley County3
- Pawnee County3
- Rush County3
- Wyandotte County2
- Atchison County2
- Brown County2
- Barton County2
- Osborne County2
- Russell County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.