Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2003
36 tornado watches in 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 36
- Busiest month
- May19 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20035 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 18, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Harper, Kingman and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 19, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 19 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 6 hr |
| May 4, 11:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 12:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 12:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Jefferson, Johnson and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 7 hr |
| May 4, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Doniphan, Wyandotte | 6 hr |
| May 6, 11:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 20 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 1:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 5 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 31 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Chase, Coffey, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 7 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 3:05 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 17 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 11:35 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Linn, Miami | 7 hr |
| May 10, 11:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 15, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan and 3 more | 5 hr |
| May 15, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Grant, Haskell, Kiowa, Meade and 4 more | 5 hr |
| May 15, 11:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Harper | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cloud, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 20, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 22, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Republic and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 23, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Norton, Phillips, Smith | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 21, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 9, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Lane, Logan and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 10, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne, Phillips and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 17, 3:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha and 3 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Sheridan County9
- Decatur County8
- Norton County8
- Smith County8
- Cloud County8
- Cherokee County8
- Crawford County8
- Gove County7
- Graham County7
- Phillips County7
- Clay County7
- Linn County7
- Miami County7
- Washington County7
- Labette County7
- Montgomery County7
- Neosho County7
- Jewell County7
- Mitchell County7
- Bourbon County7
- Logan County6
- Osborne County6
- Rawlins County6
- Rooks County6
- Thomas County6
- Anderson County6
- Chase County6
- Coffey County6
- Ottawa County6
- Republic County6
- Riley County6
- Chautauqua County6
- Elk County6
- Wilson County6
- Allen County6
- Clark County5
- Comanche County5
- Sherman County5
- Trego County5
- Harper County5
65 more counties
- Marion County5
- Sumner County5
- Brown County5
- Doniphan County5
- Douglas County5
- Franklin County5
- Johnson County5
- Lyon County5
- Marshall County5
- Nemaha County5
- Cowley County5
- Wyandotte County5
- Greenwood County5
- Grant County4
- Haskell County4
- Kiowa County4
- Rush County4
- Scott County4
- Seward County4
- Stevens County4
- Wichita County4
- Ellis County4
- Kingman County4
- McPherson County4
- Sedgwick County4
- Atchison County4
- Dickinson County4
- Geary County4
- Jackson County4
- Jefferson County4
- Leavenworth County4
- Morris County4
- Osage County4
- Pottawatomie County4
- Saline County4
- Shawnee County4
- Wabaunsee County4
- Butler County4
- Cheyenne County4
- Wallace County4
- Kearny County3
- Lane County3
- Meade County3
- Ness County3
- Barber County3
- Harvey County3
- Lincoln County3
- Woodson County3
- Morton County3
- Stanton County3
- Edwards County2
- Finney County2
- Ford County2
- Gray County2
- Hodgeman County2
- Pawnee County2
- Reno County2
- Ellsworth County2
- Russell County2
- Greeley County2
- Hamilton County2
- Barton County1
- Pratt County1
- Rice County1
- Stafford County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.