Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 2012
3 tornado watches in May 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 May 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 1, 20121 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Barton County2
- Rice County2
- Allen County1
- Bourbon County1
- Butler County1
- Chase County1
- Chautauqua County1
- Cherokee County1
- Cowley County1
- Crawford County1
- Elk County1
- Greenwood County1
- Harper County1
- Harvey County1
- Kingman County1
- Labette County1
- McPherson County1
- Marion County1
- Montgomery County1
- Neosho County1
- Reno County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Sumner County1
- Wilson County1
- Woodson County1
- Doniphan County1
- Ellis County1
- Ellsworth County1
- Lincoln County1
- Mitchell County1
- Ness County1
- Osborne County1
- Rooks County1
- Rush County1
- Russell County1
- Trego 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.