Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 2008
24 tornado watches in May 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 24
- Busiest day
- May 25, 20085 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chautauqua County10
- Barber County10
- Pratt County10
- Stafford County10
- Cowley County9
- Elk County9
- Clark County9
- Comanche County9
- Edwards County9
- Kiowa County9
- Greenwood County8
- Ellis County8
- Ford County8
- Hodgeman County8
- Ness County8
- Pawnee County8
- Rush County8
- Trego County8
- Butler County7
- Wilson County7
- Gray County7
- Lane County7
- Meade County7
- Phillips County7
- Rooks County7
- Harper County7
- Reno County7
- Sumner County7
- Anderson County6
- Chase County6
- Cherokee County6
- Labette County6
- Linn County6
- Montgomery County6
- Neosho County6
- Woodson County6
- Finney County6
- Seward County6
- Osborne County6
- Smith County6
65 more counties
- Harvey County6
- Kingman County6
- McPherson County6
- Russell County6
- Sedgwick County6
- Allen County5
- Bourbon County5
- Coffey County5
- Crawford County5
- Franklin County5
- Johnson County5
- Miami County5
- Haskell County5
- Kearny County5
- Scott County5
- Barton County5
- Cloud County5
- Ellsworth County5
- Jewell County5
- Lincoln County5
- Marion County5
- Mitchell County5
- Republic County5
- Rice County5
- Atchison County4
- Brown County4
- Doniphan County4
- Douglas County4
- Jackson County4
- Leavenworth County4
- Osage County4
- Wyandotte County4
- Decatur County4
- Gove County4
- Graham County4
- Norton County4
- Rawlins County4
- Sheridan County4
- Clay County4
- Dickinson County4
- Ottawa County4
- Saline County4
- Washington County4
- Jefferson County3
- Lyon County3
- Shawnee County3
- Wabaunsee County3
- Grant County3
- Hamilton County3
- Stevens County3
- Cheyenne County3
- Geary County3
- Morris County3
- Riley County3
- Greeley County2
- Logan County2
- Sherman County2
- Thomas County2
- Wallace County2
- Wichita County2
- Morton County2
- Stanton County2
- Marshall County2
- Nemaha County2
- Pottawatomie 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.