Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2009
Tornado Watches in Kansas, April 2009
11 tornado watches in April 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 April 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- April 26, 20096 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cowley County6
- Sumner County6
- Allen County5
- Chautauqua County5
- Elk County5
- Montgomery County5
- Neosho County5
- Wilson County5
- Woodson County5
- Harvey County5
- Pratt County5
- Reno County5
- Harper County5
- Butler County4
- Greenwood County4
- Labette County4
- Edwards County4
- Kingman County4
- Kiowa County4
- Sedgwick County4
- Stafford County4
- Barber County4
- Comanche County4
- Chase County4
- Marion County4
- Morris County4
- Clark County3
- Ford County3
- Lyon County3
- Osage County3
- Shawnee County3
- Wabaunsee County3
- McPherson County3
- Finney County2
- Gray County2
- Hodgeman County2
- Lane County2
- Ness County2
- Pawnee County2
- Rush County2
50 more counties
- Scott County2
- Anderson County2
- Coffey County2
- Douglas County2
- Franklin County2
- Jefferson County2
- Barton County2
- Clay County2
- Dickinson County2
- Ellsworth County2
- Geary County2
- Lincoln County2
- Marshall County2
- Ottawa County2
- Rice County2
- Riley County2
- Saline County2
- Washington County2
- Brown County2
- Jackson County2
- Meade County2
- Bourbon County1
- Cherokee County1
- Crawford County1
- Ellis County1
- Trego County1
- Russell County1
- Cloud County1
- Jewell County1
- Mitchell County1
- Nemaha County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Republic County1
- Atchison County1
- Doniphan County1
- Johnson County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Linn County1
- Miami County1
- Wyandotte County1
- Grant County1
- Greeley County1
- Hamilton County1
- Haskell County1
- Kearny County1
- Morton County1
- Seward County1
- Stanton County1
- Stevens County1
- Wichita County1
Nearby
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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.