Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2000
Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 2000
9 tornado watches in May 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 May 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 26, 20003 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 8, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette | 5 hr |
| May 17, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 34 more | 5 hr |
| May 17, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jewell, Phillips, Smith | 5 hr |
| May 24, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Crawford and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Meade | 6 hr |
| May 26, 12:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Harper and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 46 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Labette County4
- Chautauqua County4
- Cowley County4
- Elk County4
- Harper County4
- Sumner County4
- Crawford County3
- Butler County3
- Jewell County3
- Kingman County3
- Sedgwick County3
- Smith County3
- Montgomery County3
- Neosho County3
- Wilson County3
- Bourbon County2
- Cherokee County2
- Barber County2
- Chase County2
- Clay County2
- Cloud County2
- Dickinson County2
- Ellsworth County2
- Geary County2
- Greenwood County2
- Harvey County2
- Lincoln County2
- McPherson County2
- Marion County2
- Mitchell County2
- Morris County2
- Osborne County2
- Ottawa County2
- Phillips County2
- Pratt County2
- Reno County2
- Republic County2
- Rice County2
- Riley County2
- Saline County2
48 more counties
- Washington County2
- Clark County2
- Meade County2
- Barton County1
- Ellis County1
- Rooks County1
- Rush County1
- Russell County1
- Stafford County1
- Edwards County1
- Finney County1
- Ford County1
- Grant County1
- Gray County1
- Hamilton County1
- Haskell County1
- Hodgeman County1
- Kearny County1
- Kiowa County1
- Morton County1
- Pawnee County1
- Seward County1
- Stanton County1
- Stevens County1
- Comanche County1
- Allen County1
- Anderson County1
- Atchison County1
- Brown County1
- Coffey County1
- Douglas County1
- Franklin County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lyon County1
- Marshall County1
- Nemaha County1
- Osage County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Shawnee County1
- Wabaunsee County1
- Woodson County1
- Doniphan County1
- Johnson County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Linn County1
- Miami County1
- Wyandotte 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.