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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2011

30 tornado watches in 2011. 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
30
Busiest month
May12 tornado watches
Busiest day
May 24, 20113 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 27, 2:46 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCChautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho and 2 more8 hr
Feb 27, 7:24 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford7 hr
Mar 22, 2:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 27 more7 hr
Apr 8, 5:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 15 more9 hr
Apr 14, 2:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 41 more6 hr
May 11, 4:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 7 more6 hr
May 12, 2:37 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Phillips, Republic, Smith and 1 more7 hr
May 19, 1:43 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark, Clay and 43 more7 hr
May 19, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 34 more6 hr
May 22, 12:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCLinn, Miami10 hr
May 22, 1:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette and 3 more8 hr
May 24, 1:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 30 more6 hr
May 24, 3:14 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAllen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 20 more9 hr
May 24, 5:19 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 23 more7 hr
May 24, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Doniphan, Johnson and 4 more7 hr
May 25, 10:37 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCJohnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Wyandotte7 hr
May 29, 7:16 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCJewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith4 hr
Jun 1, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis and 23 more7 hr
Jun 9, 3:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Clay, Coffey, Dickinson and 20 more7 hr
Jun 19, 6:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 17 more7 hr
Jun 20, 1:00 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCDecatur, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton and 5 more10 hr
Jun 20, 3:08 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 34 more7 hr
Jun 20, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDecatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 4 more3 hr
Jun 20, 8:32 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chautauqua and 25 more4 hr
Jun 26, 6:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Doniphan7 hr
Jul 13, 4:41 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Jewell and 13 more6 hr
Aug 9, 2:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more7 hr
Sep 17, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards and 14 more9 hr
Oct 7, 6:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant and 19 more7 hr
Nov 7, 5:37 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 7 more7 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

65 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 24, 20113tornado watches
  2. May 22, 20112tornado watches
  3. May 25, 20112tornado watches
  4. June 20, 20112tornado watches
  5. June 21, 20112tornado watches
  6. February 27, 20111tornado watches
  7. February 28, 20111tornado watches
  8. March 22, 20111tornado watches
  9. April 8, 20111tornado watches
  10. April 14, 20111tornado watches
  11. May 11, 20111tornado watches
  12. May 12, 20111tornado watches

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. Rebuilt daily.