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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2002

25 tornado watches in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
25
Busiest month
May10 tornado watches
Busiest day
December 18, 20024 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
Apr 18, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Barber, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 34 more5 hr
Apr 27, 12:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCloud, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell, Nemaha, Osborne and 3 more6 hr
Apr 27, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Greenwood and 13 more5 hr
Apr 27, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Doniphan5 hr
May 5, 2:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 28 more6 hr
May 5, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 19 more6 hr
May 6, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Brown and 47 more6 hr
May 7, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 28 more6 hr
May 7, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Butler, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards, Harper and 9 more4 hr
May 8, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 37 more6 hr
May 8, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson and 5 more6 hr
May 11, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 29 more6 hr
May 11, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Butler, Chase, Comanche, Harper, Harvey and 10 more5 hr
May 26, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 23 more5 hr
Jun 11, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clark and 33 more6 hr
Jun 11, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDoniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Wyandotte6 hr
Jun 11, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCloud, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic, Washington5 hr
Jun 12, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Butler, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Harper and 4 more5 hr
Jul 26, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha, Washington5 hr
Jul 28, 4:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Jewell and 14 more5 hr
Aug 12, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 23 more7 hr
Dec 17, 7:35 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCherokee5 hr
Dec 17, 10:40 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCChautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho5 hr
Dec 18, 3:30 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCCherokee, Crawford5 hr
Dec 18, 9:30 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCCherokee6 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

53 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. December 18, 20024tornado watches
  2. April 27, 20023tornado watches
  3. May 8, 20023tornado watches
  4. June 11, 20023tornado watches
  5. May 5, 20022tornado watches
  6. April 18, 20021tornado watches
  7. May 6, 20021tornado watches
  8. May 7, 20021tornado watches
  9. May 11, 20021tornado watches
  10. May 12, 20021tornado watches
  11. May 27, 20021tornado watches
  12. June 12, 20021tornado watches

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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.