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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2004

34 tornado watches in 2004. 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 2004. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
34
Busiest month
May18 tornado watches
Busiest day
May 22, 20043 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 4, 2:05 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 1 more6 hr
Mar 27, 1:35 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, McPherson and 6 more5 hr
Apr 18, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 13 more5 hr
Apr 20, 2:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 8 more6 hr
May 11, 2:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray and 19 more6 hr
May 12, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Dickinson, Edwards and 17 more6 hr
May 12, 9:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 22 more7 hr
May 16, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 28 more7 hr
May 17, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarton, Butler, Clark, Clay, Dickinson, Edwards and 40 more6 hr
May 21, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Republic and 2 more5 hr
May 22, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas6 hr
May 22, 5:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 13 more5 hr
May 22, 10:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 10 more5 hr
May 24, 1:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 27 more9 hr
May 24, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 16 more6 hr
May 26, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Coffey and 10 more6 hr
May 29, 2:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark, Comanche and 20 more7 hr
May 29, 3:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 24 more7 hr
May 29, 4:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson and 5 more5 hr
May 29, 9:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 26 more6 hr
May 29, 9:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 25 more6 hr
May 30, 10:50 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn8 hr
Jun 2, 3:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Grant, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward and 2 more7 hr
Jun 9, 2:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMorton, Stanton6 hr
Jun 10, 4:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarton, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham and 13 more5 hr
Jun 12, 11:45 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 28 more7 hr
Jun 12, 2:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 9 more8 hr
Jun 12, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay and 36 more5 hr
Jun 12, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 6 more3 hr
Jun 16, 1:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFinney, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 7 more7 hr
Jun 17, 2:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFinney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 12 more6 hr
Jul 22, 2:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Sherman, Wallace4 hr
Aug 23, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chase and 27 more7 hr
Oct 29, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford5 hr

By county

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

65 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 22, 20043tornado watches
  2. May 29, 20043tornado watches
  3. May 30, 20043tornado watches
  4. June 12, 20043tornado watches
  5. May 24, 20042tornado watches
  6. March 4, 20041tornado watches
  7. March 27, 20041tornado watches
  8. April 18, 20041tornado watches
  9. April 20, 20041tornado watches
  10. May 11, 20041tornado watches
  11. May 12, 20041tornado watches
  12. May 13, 20041tornado watches

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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.