Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Kansas, April 2003
8 tornado watches in April 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 April 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- April 15, 20033 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clark County3
- Comanche County3
- Kiowa County3
- Rush County3
- Edwards County2
- Ford County2
- Hodgeman County2
- Ness County2
- Pawnee County2
- Decatur County2
- Ellis County2
- Gove County2
- Graham County2
- Norton County2
- Osborne County2
- Phillips County2
- Rooks County2
- Sheridan County2
- Smith County2
- Trego County2
- Barber County2
- Harper County2
- Kingman County2
- McPherson County2
- Marion County2
- Sumner County2
- Clay County2
- Cloud County2
- Dickinson County2
- Doniphan County2
- Geary County2
- Johnson County2
- Leavenworth County2
- Ottawa County2
- Republic County2
- Riley County2
- Saline County2
- Washington County2
- Cowley County2
- Finney County1
55 more counties
- Grant County1
- Gray County1
- Haskell County1
- Kearny County1
- Lane County1
- Meade County1
- Scott County1
- Seward County1
- Stevens County1
- Wichita County1
- Logan County1
- Rawlins County1
- Sherman County1
- Thomas County1
- Barton County1
- Harvey County1
- Pratt County1
- Reno County1
- Rice County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Stafford County1
- Anderson County1
- Atchison County1
- Brown County1
- Chase County1
- Coffey County1
- Douglas County1
- Franklin County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Linn County1
- Lyon County1
- Marshall County1
- Miami County1
- Morris County1
- Nemaha County1
- Osage County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Shawnee County1
- Wabaunsee County1
- Butler County1
- Chautauqua County1
- Cherokee County1
- Crawford County1
- Elk County1
- Labette County1
- Montgomery County1
- Neosho County1
- Wilson County1
- Ellsworth County1
- Jewell County1
- Lincoln County1
- Mitchell County1
- Russell 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.