Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2011
Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 2011
12 tornado watches in May 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 May 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest day
- May 24, 20113 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 11, 4:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 2:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Phillips, Republic, Smith and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 19, 1:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark, Clay and 43 more | 7 hr |
| May 19, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 34 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 12:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Linn, Miami | 10 hr |
| May 22, 1:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette and 3 more | 8 hr |
| May 24, 1:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 3:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 20 more | 9 hr |
| May 24, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 23 more | 7 hr |
| May 24, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Doniphan, Johnson and 4 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 10:37 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Wyandotte | 7 hr |
| May 29, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Phillips County5
- Jewell County5
- Mitchell County5
- Smith County5
- Rooks County4
- Cloud County4
- Republic County4
- Osborne County4
- Gove County3
- Graham County3
- Sheridan County3
- Washington County3
- Barber County3
- Barton County3
- Clark County3
- Clay County3
- Comanche County3
- Dickinson County3
- Edwards County3
- Ellis County3
- Ellsworth County3
- Ford County3
- Harper County3
- Hodgeman County3
- Kingman County3
- Kiowa County3
- Lincoln County3
- McPherson County3
- Ness County3
- Ottawa County3
- Pawnee County3
- Pratt County3
- Reno County3
- Rice County3
- Rush County3
- Russell County3
- Saline County3
- Stafford County3
- Trego County3
- Miami County3
65 more counties
- Decatur County2
- Logan County2
- Norton County2
- Sherman County2
- Thomas County2
- Wallace County2
- Butler County2
- Chase County2
- Cowley County2
- Harvey County2
- Lane County2
- Marion County2
- Morris County2
- Sedgwick County2
- Sumner County2
- Geary County2
- Gray County2
- Meade County2
- Riley County2
- Linn County2
- Allen County2
- Bourbon County2
- Chautauqua County2
- Cherokee County2
- Crawford County2
- Labette County2
- Montgomery County2
- Neosho County2
- Wilson County2
- Johnson County2
- Leavenworth County2
- Wyandotte County2
- Cheyenne County1
- Rawlins County1
- Finney County1
- Grant County1
- Greeley County1
- Hamilton County1
- Haskell County1
- Kearny County1
- Morton County1
- Scott County1
- Seward County1
- Stanton County1
- Stevens County1
- Wichita County1
- Elk County1
- Greenwood County1
- Woodson County1
- Anderson County1
- Brown County1
- Coffey County1
- Douglas County1
- Franklin County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lyon County1
- Marshall County1
- Nemaha County1
- Osage County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Shawnee County1
- Wabaunsee County1
- Atchison County1
- Doniphan 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. Rebuilt daily.