Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Kansas, April 2012
9 tornado watches in April 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 April 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- April 14, 20124 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, 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Barber County4
- Clark County4
- Comanche County4
- Chautauqua County4
- Dickinson County4
- McPherson County4
- Reno County4
- Saline County4
- Decatur County3
- Scott County3
- Sheridan County3
- Clay County3
- Cloud County3
- Edwards County3
- Ellsworth County3
- Ford County3
- Harper County3
- Hodgeman County3
- Jewell County3
- Kingman County3
- Kiowa County3
- Lincoln County3
- Mitchell County3
- Ness County3
- Osborne County3
- Ottawa County3
- Pawnee County3
- Pratt County3
- Republic County3
- Rice County3
- Rush County3
- Smith County3
- Stafford County3
- Washington County3
- Butler County3
- Chase County3
- Coffey County3
- Cowley County3
- Elk County3
- Geary County3
57 more counties
- Greenwood County3
- Harvey County3
- Jackson County3
- Lyon County3
- Marion County3
- Marshall County3
- Morris County3
- Nemaha County3
- Osage County3
- Pottawatomie County3
- Riley County3
- Sedgwick County3
- Shawnee County3
- Sumner County3
- Wabaunsee County3
- Labette County2
- Montgomery County2
- Barton County2
- Ellis County2
- Finney County2
- Graham County2
- Gray County2
- Haskell County2
- Lane County2
- Meade County2
- Norton County2
- Phillips County2
- Rooks County2
- Russell County2
- Seward County2
- Trego County2
- Doniphan County2
- Brown County2
- Jefferson County2
- Cheyenne County1
- Greeley County1
- Hamilton County1
- Kearny County1
- Logan County1
- Rawlins County1
- Sherman County1
- Thomas County1
- Wallace County1
- Wichita County1
- Gove County1
- Atchison County1
- Allen County1
- Anderson County1
- Bourbon County1
- Cherokee County1
- Crawford County1
- Douglas County1
- Franklin County1
- Linn County1
- Neosho County1
- Wilson County1
- Woodson 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.