Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 1999
Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 1999
12 tornado watches in May 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 May 1999. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest day
- May 4, 19993 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kingman County6
- Sedgwick County6
- Sumner County6
- Barber County5
- Butler County5
- Cowley County5
- Pratt County5
- Chase County4
- Cloud County4
- Harper County4
- Harvey County4
- Marion County4
- Morris County4
- Ottawa County4
- Reno County4
- Republic County4
- Saline County4
- Chautauqua County4
- Elk County4
- Greenwood County4
- Comanche County4
- Clay County3
- Dickinson County3
- Ellsworth County3
- Geary County3
- Jewell County3
- Lincoln County3
- Lyon County3
- McPherson County3
- Mitchell County3
- Rice County3
- Riley County3
- Washington County3
- Clark County3
- Ford County3
- Gray County3
- Haskell County3
- Kiowa County3
- Meade County3
- Seward County3
65 more counties
- Marshall County2
- Nemaha County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Stafford County2
- Wabaunsee County2
- Anderson County2
- Coffey County2
- Douglas County2
- Franklin County2
- Johnson County2
- Miami County2
- Montgomery County2
- Osage County2
- Wilson County2
- Woodson County2
- Osborne County2
- Phillips County2
- Rooks County2
- Russell County2
- Smith County2
- Cheyenne County2
- Decatur County2
- Rawlins County2
- Sheridan County2
- Sherman County2
- Thomas County2
- Edwards County2
- Grant County2
- Morton County2
- Stanton County2
- Stevens County2
- Allen County1
- Bourbon County1
- Cherokee County1
- Crawford County1
- Labette County1
- Linn County1
- Neosho County1
- Barton County1
- Atchison County1
- Brown County1
- Doniphan County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Shawnee County1
- Wyandotte County1
- Ellis County1
- Gove County1
- Graham County1
- Logan County1
- Norton County1
- Trego County1
- Wallace County1
- Finney County1
- Greeley County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hodgeman County1
- Kearny County1
- Lane County1
- Ness County1
- Pawnee County1
- Rush County1
- Scott County1
- Wichita County1
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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.