Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2008
51 tornado watches in 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 51
- Busiest month
- May24 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 25, 20085 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 1:52 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Linn and 2 more | 146 days |
| Mar 31, 8:44 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 23, 2:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 25, 1:13 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 1, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 27 more | 7 hr |
| May 2, 12:53 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 19 more | 2 hr |
| May 10, 11:29 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 18 more | 9 hr |
| May 13, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 22, 1:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 33 more | 10 hr |
| May 22, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 44 more | 8 hr |
| May 23, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur and 33 more | 7 hr |
| May 23, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 43 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 11:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman and 5 more | 4 hr |
| May 25, 12:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 15 more | 5 hr |
| May 25, 1:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee | 7 hr |
| May 25, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 32 more | 3 hr |
| May 26, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 29 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche and 15 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 1:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne | 7 hr |
| May 29, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham and 14 more | 8 hr |
| May 29, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan | 8 hr |
| May 29, 10:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Republic and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 30, 2:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 15 more | 7 hr |
| May 31, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Harper, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more | 7 hr |
| May 31, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 10:57 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Crawford | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Wyandotte | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 10:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 8 hr |
| Jun 5, 11:47 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clay, Cloud, Comanche, Dickinson and 26 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 5, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jewell | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 7 hr |
| Jun 7, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Marshall, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 10, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 23 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 11, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Edwards and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 9:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 24 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Butler, Chase, Coffey and 26 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 18, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 24, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Douglas and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 12, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson, Johnson and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 5, 2:17 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 8 more | 10 hr |
| Dec 26, 9:51 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 27, 4:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Linn and 4 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chautauqua County15
- Cowley County15
- Elk County15
- Labette County13
- Montgomery County13
- Neosho County13
- Wilson County13
- Greenwood County13
- Stafford County13
- Allen County12
- Bourbon County12
- Cherokee County12
- Crawford County12
- Linn County12
- Butler County12
- Miami County12
- Barber County12
- Edwards County12
- Pratt County12
- Phillips County12
- Rooks County12
- Reno County12
- Sumner County12
- Cloud County11
- Republic County11
- Washington County11
- Anderson County11
- Chase County11
- Douglas County11
- Franklin County11
- Johnson County11
- Leavenworth County11
- Osage County11
- Woodson County11
- Comanche County11
- Kiowa County11
- Pawnee County11
- Rush County11
- Osborne County11
- Smith County11
65 more counties
- Harper County11
- McPherson County11
- Atchison County10
- Jackson County10
- Coffey County10
- Wyandotte County10
- Clark County10
- Ellis County10
- Ford County10
- Hodgeman County10
- Harvey County10
- Jewell County10
- Kingman County10
- Mitchell County10
- Sedgwick County10
- Brown County9
- Clay County9
- Doniphan County9
- Jefferson County9
- Lyon County9
- Shawnee County9
- Ness County9
- Trego County9
- Barton County9
- Ellsworth County9
- Lincoln County9
- Marion County9
- Rice County9
- Russell County9
- Decatur County8
- Rawlins County8
- Sheridan County8
- Marshall County8
- Riley County8
- Wabaunsee County8
- Gray County8
- Lane County8
- Meade County8
- Cheyenne County7
- Nemaha County7
- Pottawatomie County7
- Finney County7
- Seward County7
- Graham County7
- Norton County7
- Dickinson County7
- Geary County7
- Morris County7
- Ottawa County7
- Saline County7
- Gove County6
- Sherman County6
- Thomas County6
- Haskell County6
- Scott County6
- Kearny County5
- Greeley County4
- Logan County4
- Wallace County4
- Wichita County4
- Grant County3
- Hamilton County3
- Stevens County3
- Morton County2
- Stanton County2
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.