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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2013

18 tornado watches in 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
18
Busiest month
May12 tornado watches
Busiest day
May 19, 20134 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 29, 7:26 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Linn, Miami and 2 more10 hr
Apr 17, 11:11 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn and 2 more11 hr
Apr 17, 1:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Chautauqua, Coffey, Cowley, Douglas and 12 more8 hr
Apr 17, 9:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford7 hr
May 18, 2:42 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Cheyenne, Clark and 48 more8 hr
May 18, 7:29 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jewell, Marshall and 7 more5 hr
May 18, 10:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 11 more3 hr
May 19, 1:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Brown, Butler and 53 more10 hr
May 19, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford9 hr
May 20, 12:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 13 more8 hr
May 27, 4:49 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 20 more7 hr
May 28, 2:23 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey and 29 more8 hr
May 29, 12:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 38 more11 hr
May 29, 1:04 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton and 8 more9 hr
May 29, 3:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Morris and 4 more7 hr
May 31, 2:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Linn and 3 more8 hr
Jun 22, 5:18 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Sherman, Wallace7 hr
Jun 22, 5:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDecatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan, Norton and 8 more7 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

65 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 19, 20134tornado watches
  2. May 29, 20133tornado watches
  3. April 17, 20132tornado watches
  4. June 22, 20132tornado watches
  5. January 29, 20131tornado watches
  6. April 18, 20131tornado watches
  7. May 18, 20131tornado watches
  8. May 20, 20131tornado watches
  9. May 27, 20131tornado watches
  10. May 28, 20131tornado watches
  11. May 31, 20131tornado watches

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.