Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2003

Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 2003

19 tornado watches in May 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 May 2003. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
19
Busiest day
May 4, 20035 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 11:40 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 19 more6 hr
May 4, 12:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 6 more6 hr
May 4, 12:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Jefferson, Johnson and 4 more6 hr
May 4, 6:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford7 hr
May 4, 6:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDoniphan, Wyandotte6 hr
May 6, 11:40 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 20 more7 hr
May 8, 1:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 6 more6 hr
May 8, 1:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCButler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 5 more7 hr
May 8, 1:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 31 more7 hr
May 8, 4:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford and 13 more6 hr
May 9, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette and 5 more6 hr
May 9, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCButler, Chase, Coffey, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 7 more5 hr
May 10, 3:05 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 17 more5 hr
May 10, 11:35 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCLinn, Miami7 hr
May 10, 11:55 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 1 more7 hr
May 15, 1:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCGrant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton and 5 more6 hr
May 15, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan and 3 more5 hr
May 15, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Comanche, Grant, Haskell, Kiowa, Meade and 4 more5 hr
May 15, 11:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Harper4 hr

By county

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

52 more counties

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.