Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 2002
10 tornado watches in May 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 May 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- May 8, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 28 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Brown and 47 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 28 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards, Harper and 9 more | 4 hr |
| May 8, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 37 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 11, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 29 more | 6 hr |
| May 11, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Comanche, Harper, Harvey and 10 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 23 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Comanche County7
- Stafford County7
- McPherson County7
- Morris County7
- Barton County6
- Lincoln County6
- Mitchell County6
- Clay County6
- Cloud County6
- Dickinson County6
- Ellsworth County6
- Geary County6
- Marion County6
- Ottawa County6
- Pottawatomie County6
- Rice County6
- Riley County6
- Saline County6
- Barber County6
- Harvey County6
- Kingman County6
- Pratt County6
- Reno County6
- Sedgwick County6
- Edwards County5
- Kiowa County5
- Pawnee County5
- Russell County5
- Chase County5
- Marshall County5
- Wabaunsee County5
- Butler County5
- Harper County5
- Jewell County4
- Atchison County4
- Jackson County4
- Lyon County4
- Nemaha County4
- Shawnee County4
- Washington County4
44 more counties
- Sumner County4
- Ellis County3
- Osborne County3
- Rooks County3
- Brown County3
- Doniphan County3
- Jefferson County3
- Osage County3
- Republic County3
- Clark County2
- Norton County2
- Phillips County2
- Rush County2
- Smith County2
- Anderson County2
- Douglas County2
- Franklin County2
- Greenwood County2
- Leavenworth County2
- Cowley County2
- Finney County1
- Ford County1
- Gove County1
- Graham County1
- Grant County1
- Gray County1
- Haskell County1
- Hodgeman County1
- Lane County1
- Meade County1
- Ness County1
- Scott County1
- Seward County1
- Sheridan County1
- Stevens County1
- Trego County1
- Allen County1
- Coffey County1
- Woodson County1
- Elk County1
- Johnson County1
- Linn County1
- Miami County1
- Wyandotte 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. Rebuilt daily.