Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2004
Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 2004
18 tornado watches in May 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 May 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 18
- Busiest day
- May 22, 20043 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 11, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Dickinson, Edwards and 17 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 22 more | 7 hr |
| May 16, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 28 more | 7 hr |
| May 17, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Clark, Clay, Dickinson, Edwards and 40 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Republic and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 22, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 6 hr |
| May 22, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 13 more | 5 hr |
| May 22, 10:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 10 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 27 more | 9 hr |
| May 24, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Coffey and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark, Comanche and 20 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 24 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 29, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 26 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 25 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 10:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dickinson County7
- Saline County7
- Harvey County6
- Kingman County6
- McPherson County6
- Reno County6
- Rice County6
- Sedgwick County6
- Anderson County6
- Butler County6
- Marion County6
- Clay County6
- Ottawa County6
- Cloud County6
- Republic County6
- Linn County6
- Ellsworth County5
- Harper County5
- Sumner County5
- Cowley County5
- Elk County5
- Greenwood County5
- Osage County5
- Geary County5
- Marshall County5
- Riley County5
- Washington County5
- Meade County4
- Barton County4
- Clark County4
- Pratt County4
- Stafford County4
- Allen County4
- Chase County4
- Chautauqua County4
- Coffey County4
- Douglas County4
- Labette County4
- Lyon County4
- Montgomery County4
65 more counties
- Morris County4
- Neosho County4
- Wilson County4
- Woodson County4
- Lincoln County4
- Russell County4
- Jewell County4
- Mitchell County4
- Atchison County4
- Brown County4
- Doniphan County4
- Jackson County4
- Nemaha County4
- Pottawatomie County4
- Bourbon County4
- Crawford County4
- Cheyenne County3
- Finney County3
- Gove County3
- Grant County3
- Gray County3
- Greeley County3
- Hamilton County3
- Haskell County3
- Kearny County3
- Lane County3
- Logan County3
- Morton County3
- Rawlins County3
- Scott County3
- Seward County3
- Sherman County3
- Stanton County3
- Stevens County3
- Thomas County3
- Wallace County3
- Wichita County3
- Barber County3
- Edwards County3
- Ford County3
- Hodgeman County3
- Kiowa County3
- Pawnee County3
- Franklin County3
- Ellis County3
- Phillips County3
- Rooks County3
- Trego County3
- Osborne County3
- Smith County3
- Jefferson County3
- Johnson County3
- Leavenworth County3
- Shawnee County3
- Wabaunsee County3
- Wyandotte County3
- Cherokee County3
- Decatur County2
- Norton County2
- Sheridan County2
- Comanche County2
- Graham County2
- Ness County2
- Rush County2
- Miami County2
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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.