Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2013
Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 2013
12 tornado watches in May 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 May 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest day
- May 19, 20134 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Cheyenne, Clark and 48 more | 8 hr |
| May 18, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jewell, Marshall and 7 more | 5 hr |
| May 18, 10:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 11 more | 3 hr |
| May 19, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Brown, Butler and 53 more | 10 hr |
| May 19, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 9 hr |
| May 20, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 13 more | 8 hr |
| May 27, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 20 more | 7 hr |
| May 28, 2:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey and 29 more | 8 hr |
| May 29, 12:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 38 more | 11 hr |
| May 29, 1:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton and 8 more | 9 hr |
| May 29, 3:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Morris and 4 more | 7 hr |
| May 31, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Linn and 3 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ellsworth County5
- Lincoln County5
- Saline County5
- Clay County5
- Cloud County5
- Dickinson County5
- Geary County5
- Marshall County5
- Ottawa County5
- Republic County5
- Riley County5
- Washington County5
- Mitchell County4
- Rice County4
- Russell County4
- Jewell County4
- Morris County4
- Pottawatomie County4
- Coffey County4
- Franklin County4
- Johnson County4
- Miami County4
- Linn County4
- Barber County3
- Barton County3
- Cowley County3
- Decatur County3
- Ellis County3
- Graham County3
- Harper County3
- Harvey County3
- Kingman County3
- McPherson County3
- Marion County3
- Norton County3
- Osborne County3
- Phillips County3
- Pratt County3
- Reno County3
- Rooks County3
65 more counties
- Sheridan County3
- Smith County3
- Stafford County3
- Trego County3
- Wabaunsee County3
- Anderson County3
- Atchison County3
- Brown County3
- Doniphan County3
- Douglas County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Leavenworth County3
- Lyon County3
- Nemaha County3
- Osage County3
- Shawnee County3
- Wyandotte County3
- Allen County3
- Labette County3
- Montgomery County3
- Neosho County3
- Wilson County3
- Bourbon County3
- Cherokee County3
- Crawford County3
- Butler County2
- Chase County2
- Cheyenne County2
- Clark County2
- Comanche County2
- Edwards County2
- Finney County2
- Ford County2
- Gove County2
- Gray County2
- Greeley County2
- Hodgeman County2
- Kiowa County2
- Lane County2
- Logan County2
- Meade County2
- Ness County2
- Pawnee County2
- Rawlins County2
- Rush County2
- Scott County2
- Sedgwick County2
- Sherman County2
- Sumner County2
- Thomas County2
- Wallace County2
- Wichita County2
- Chautauqua County2
- Elk County2
- Greenwood County2
- Woodson County2
- Grant County1
- Hamilton County1
- Haskell County1
- Kearny County1
- Morton County1
- Seward County1
- Stanton County1
- Stevens County1
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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.