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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2016

20 tornado watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
20
Busiest month
May11 tornado watches
Busiest day
May 25, 20163 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
Mar 23, 3:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDoniphan7 hr
Apr 15, 2:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCGrant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens7 hr
Apr 24, 3:04 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay and 39 more9 hr
Apr 26, 2:12 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 46 more7 hr
Apr 27, 2:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDoniphan7 hr
May 8, 3:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 38 more8 hr
May 21, 3:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 17 more8 hr
May 22, 2:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFinney, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny, Meade and 2 more9 hr
May 23, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 5 more8 hr
May 24, 3:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more9 hr
May 24, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas6 hr
May 24, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarton, Butler, Cloud, Cowley, Dickinson, Ellsworth and 19 more6 hr
May 25, 3:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud and 25 more9 hr
May 26, 1:31 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 51 more10 hr
May 26, 1:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Jewell and 13 more8 hr
May 26, 2:09 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more8 hr
Jun 13, 2:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Morton, Sherman, Stanton and 1 more8 hr
Aug 26, 6:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCJohnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte4 hr
Oct 4, 2:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCButler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Cowley, Dickinson and 23 more6 hr
Oct 6, 2:12 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 41 more7 hr

By county

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

62 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 25, 20163tornado watches
  2. May 26, 20163tornado watches
  3. March 23, 20161tornado watches
  4. April 15, 20161tornado watches
  5. April 24, 20161tornado watches
  6. April 26, 20161tornado watches
  7. April 27, 20161tornado watches
  8. May 8, 20161tornado watches
  9. May 21, 20161tornado watches
  10. May 22, 20161tornado watches
  11. May 23, 20161tornado watches
  12. May 24, 20161tornado 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. Rebuilt daily.