Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Kansas, April 2002
4 tornado watches in April 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 April 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- April 27, 20023 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Barber, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 34 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell, Nemaha, Osborne and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Greenwood and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Doniphan | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Atchison County2
- Brown County2
- Coffey County2
- Doniphan County2
- Douglas County2
- Franklin County2
- Greenwood County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Leavenworth County2
- Lyon County2
- Marshall County2
- Nemaha County2
- Osage County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Shawnee County2
- Wabaunsee County2
- Woodson County2
- Wyandotte County2
- Barber County1
- Butler County1
- Chase County1
- Chautauqua County1
- Clay County1
- Cowley County1
- Dickinson County1
- Elk County1
- Geary County1
- Harper County1
- Harvey County1
- Kingman County1
- McPherson County1
- Marion County1
- Morris County1
- Reno County1
- Riley County1
- Saline County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Sumner 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.