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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2012
20 tornado watches in 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 20
- Busiest month
- April9 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 14, 20124 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 28, 3:53 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jewell, Mitchell and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 28, 5:41 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Cowley, Ellsworth, Harper and 11 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 28, 8:10 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 25 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 28, 10:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 9, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche | 5 hr |
| Apr 12, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:42 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chautauqua, Labette, Montgomery | 5 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:43 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 42 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 14, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Doniphan | 7 hr |
| Apr 14, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 57 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 15, 1:37 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 26 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 46 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 19 more | 7 hr |
| May 3, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Doniphan | 6 hr |
| May 25, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Ellis, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Mitchell, Ness and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Harper and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford | 6 hr |
| Dec 19, 7:36 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cowley County7
- Sumner County7
- Chautauqua County7
- Butler County6
- Chase County6
- Harper County6
- Harvey County6
- McPherson County6
- Marion County6
- Reno County6
- Rice County6
- Sedgwick County6
- Dickinson County5
- Mitchell County5
- Osborne County5
- Barton County5
- Ellsworth County5
- Kingman County5
- Lincoln County5
- Saline County5
- Elk County5
- Greenwood County5
- Jackson County5
- Marshall County5
- Nemaha County5
- Pottawatomie County5
- Riley County5
- Cherokee County5
- Barber County5
- Clark County5
- Comanche County5
- Clay County4
- Cloud County4
- Geary County4
- Jewell County4
- Morris County4
- Ottawa County4
- Republic County4
- Rooks County4
- Smith County4
57 more counties
- Washington County4
- Russell County4
- Brown County4
- Coffey County4
- Jefferson County4
- Labette County4
- Lyon County4
- Montgomery County4
- Osage County4
- Shawnee County4
- Wabaunsee County4
- Crawford County4
- Doniphan County4
- Ness County4
- Rush County4
- Phillips County3
- Allen County3
- Neosho County3
- Wilson County3
- Woodson County3
- Bourbon County3
- Decatur County3
- Scott County3
- Sheridan County3
- Edwards County3
- Ellis County3
- Ford County3
- Hodgeman County3
- Kiowa County3
- Meade County3
- Pawnee County3
- Pratt County3
- Stafford County3
- Trego County3
- Anderson County2
- Douglas County2
- Franklin County2
- Atchison County2
- Finney County2
- Graham County2
- Gray County2
- Haskell County2
- Lane County2
- Norton County2
- Seward County2
- Cheyenne County1
- Greeley County1
- Hamilton County1
- Kearny County1
- Logan County1
- Rawlins County1
- Sherman County1
- Thomas County1
- Wallace County1
- Wichita County1
- Gove County1
- Linn County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.