Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Kansas, February 2012
4 tornado watches in February 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 February 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- February 28, 20122 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Butler County2
- Chase County2
- Cowley County2
- Harvey County2
- Marion County2
- Sedgwick County2
- Sumner County2
- Clay County1
- Cloud County1
- Dickinson County1
- Geary County1
- Jewell County1
- Mitchell County1
- Morris County1
- Osborne County1
- Ottawa County1
- Phillips County1
- Republic County1
- Rooks County1
- Smith County1
- Washington County1
- Barton County1
- Ellsworth County1
- Harper County1
- Kingman County1
- Lincoln County1
- McPherson County1
- Reno County1
- Rice County1
- Russell County1
- Saline County1
- Allen County1
- Anderson County1
- Brown County1
- Chautauqua County1
- Coffey County1
- Douglas County1
- Elk County1
- Franklin County1
- Greenwood 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.