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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2009
41 tornado watches in 2009. 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 41
- Busiest month
- June18 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 26, 20096 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 5:32 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 6:32 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 7 hr |
| Mar 9, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 23, 1:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Cowley and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 23, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 32 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 9, 1:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 9, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Edwards, Harvey, Kingman, Kiowa, Pratt, Reno and 3 more | 100 min |
| Apr 18, 1:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 25, 3:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 25, 10:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Harper, Labette and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 26, 2:39 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Harper, Labette and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 5:58 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Chase, Clark, Clay, Comanche, Dickinson and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 11:07 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clark and 40 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Comanche and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell and 9 more | 7 hr |
| May 7, 1:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 12:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 15, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Sherman | 7 hr |
| Jun 7, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Geary, Jackson and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 7, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Linn, Miami | 6 hr |
| Jun 7, 10:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha, Washington | 5 hr |
| Jun 9, 1:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 8 hr |
| Jun 9, 2:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 10, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 7 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Finney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 14, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 30 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 14, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 14, 10:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 18 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Jewell and 13 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 43 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 12:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jewell, Marshall, Nemaha and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 7 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Norton, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 8 hr |
| Jun 20, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chase, Clay, Dickinson, Geary, McPherson, Marion and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 3, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 20, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cheyenne and 45 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 19, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Harper, Sumner | 7 hr |
| Aug 19, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cowley County15
- Sumner County15
- Montgomery County14
- Wilson County13
- Woodson County13
- Chautauqua County13
- Elk County13
- Harper County13
- Allen County12
- Labette County12
- Neosho County12
- Butler County12
- Greenwood County12
- Morris County12
- Chase County11
- Harvey County11
- Marion County11
- Reno County11
- Brown County10
- Kingman County10
- Sedgwick County10
- Pratt County10
- Barber County10
- Dickinson County9
- Geary County9
- McPherson County9
- Marshall County9
- Nemaha County9
- Wabaunsee County9
- Comanche County9
- Jackson County8
- Lyon County8
- Riley County8
- Washington County8
- Edwards County8
- Kiowa County8
- Stafford County8
- Ottawa County7
- Pottawatomie County7
- Douglas County7
65 more counties
- Jefferson County7
- Osage County7
- Shawnee County7
- Bourbon County6
- Cherokee County6
- Crawford County6
- Clay County6
- Saline County6
- Clark County6
- Doniphan County6
- Sherman County6
- Cloud County5
- Ellsworth County5
- Jewell County5
- Lincoln County5
- Republic County5
- Rice County5
- Anderson County5
- Coffey County5
- Franklin County5
- Finney County5
- Ford County5
- Gray County5
- Ness County5
- Pawnee County5
- Rush County5
- Meade County5
- Atchison County5
- Johnson County5
- Leavenworth County5
- Wyandotte County5
- Greeley County5
- Cheyenne County5
- Thomas County5
- Mitchell County4
- Ellis County4
- Hodgeman County4
- Lane County4
- Scott County4
- Trego County4
- Barton County4
- Grant County4
- Haskell County4
- Kearny County4
- Seward County4
- Stevens County4
- Wichita County4
- Wallace County4
- Graham County4
- Sheridan County4
- Decatur County4
- Norton County4
- Rawlins County4
- Russell County3
- Linn County3
- Miami County3
- Hamilton County3
- Morton County3
- Stanton County3
- Gove County3
- Logan County3
- Phillips County3
- Smith County3
- Osborne County2
- Rooks 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.