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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2000

21 tornado watches in 2000. 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 2000. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
21
Busiest month
May9 tornado watches
Busiest day
May 26, 20003 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 7, 3:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 33 more6 hr
Mar 7, 6:45 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 50 more4 hr
Mar 7, 10:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Neosho6 hr
Apr 19, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford and 10 more6 hr
Apr 19, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 20 more6 hr
May 8, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette5 hr
May 17, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 34 more5 hr
May 17, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCJewell, Phillips, Smith5 hr
May 24, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 11 more6 hr
May 24, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Butler, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Crawford and 10 more6 hr
May 25, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Meade6 hr
May 26, 12:30 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCChautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Harper and 5 more6 hr
May 26, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 46 more7 hr
May 26, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBourbon, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more5 hr
Jun 13, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 21 more6 hr
Jun 13, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Butler, Chase, Clark, Comanche, Edwards and 9 more6 hr
Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson, Johnson and 4 more7 hr
Jul 20, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 27 more6 hr
Jul 21, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton and 5 more6 hr
Oct 28, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 31 more5 hr
Oct 31, 2:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 25 more7 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. May 26, 20003tornado watches
  2. June 13, 20003tornado watches
  3. March 8, 20002tornado watches
  4. May 24, 20002tornado watches
  5. March 7, 20001tornado watches
  6. April 19, 20001tornado watches
  7. April 20, 20001tornado watches
  8. May 8, 20001tornado watches
  9. May 17, 20001tornado watches
  10. May 18, 20001tornado watches
  11. May 25, 20001tornado watches
  12. July 20, 20001tornado watches

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. Rebuilt daily.