Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2015
25 tornado watches in 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 25
- Busiest month
- May10 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 16, 20153 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 18, 3:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson and 36 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha | 118 min |
| May 6, 1:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 31 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud, Cowley and 28 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 12:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 25 more | 11 hr |
| May 16, 2:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove, Graham and 24 more | 5 hr |
| May 16, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 10 more | 5 hr |
| May 16, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 16, 10:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 5 hr |
| May 24, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 23 more | 10 hr |
| May 27, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Finney, Ford, Gove, Grant and 21 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Edwards and 34 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 4, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Logan and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Grant, Greeley and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 1, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 15, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Douglas, Franklin, Geary and 13 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 22, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 27 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 11, 11:25 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 6 hr |
| Nov 16, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 16, 3:34 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 16, 8:17 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 22 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Gove County11
- Sheridan County11
- Logan County10
- Rawlins County10
- Thomas County10
- Decatur County9
- Finney County9
- Lane County9
- Sherman County9
- Cheyenne County8
- Graham County8
- Greeley County8
- Hodgeman County8
- Ness County8
- Trego County8
- Wallace County8
- Wichita County8
- Clark County7
- Ellis County7
- Ford County7
- Gray County7
- Hamilton County7
- Haskell County7
- Kearny County7
- Meade County7
- Scott County7
- Norton County7
- Phillips County7
- Rooks County7
- Rice County6
- Edwards County6
- Pawnee County6
- Rush County6
- Clay County6
- Cloud County6
- Dickinson County6
- Ottawa County6
- Grant County6
- Morton County6
- Seward County6
65 more counties
- Stanton County6
- Stevens County6
- Butler County5
- Cowley County5
- Barber County5
- Harper County5
- Kingman County5
- McPherson County5
- Reno County5
- Sumner County5
- Comanche County5
- Kiowa County5
- Ellsworth County5
- Jewell County5
- Lincoln County5
- Mitchell County5
- Osborne County5
- Smith County5
- Stafford County5
- Marshall County5
- Republic County5
- Washington County5
- Chautauqua County4
- Elk County4
- Greenwood County4
- Harvey County4
- Marion County4
- Sedgwick County4
- Barton County4
- Pratt County4
- Russell County4
- Saline County4
- Brown County4
- Doniphan County4
- Geary County4
- Morris County4
- Pottawatomie County4
- Riley County4
- Wabaunsee County4
- Douglas County4
- Franklin County4
- Jefferson County4
- Johnson County4
- Leavenworth County4
- Wyandotte County4
- Allen County3
- Bourbon County3
- Cherokee County3
- Crawford County3
- Labette County3
- Montgomery County3
- Neosho County3
- Wilson County3
- Woodson County3
- Nemaha County3
- Lyon County3
- Atchison County3
- Jackson County3
- Miami County3
- Osage County3
- Shawnee County3
- Chase County2
- Linn County2
- Anderson County1
- Coffey County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.