Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2016
Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 2016
11 tornado watches in May 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 May 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 25, 20163 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 8, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 38 more | 8 hr |
| May 21, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 17 more | 8 hr |
| May 22, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny, Meade and 2 more | 9 hr |
| May 23, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 5 more | 8 hr |
| May 24, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 9 hr |
| May 24, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 6 hr |
| May 24, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Cloud, Cowley, Dickinson, Ellsworth and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud and 25 more | 9 hr |
| May 26, 1:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 51 more | 10 hr |
| May 26, 1:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Jewell and 13 more | 8 hr |
| May 26, 2:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Finney County5
- Gray County5
- Barber County4
- Barton County4
- Comanche County4
- Edwards County4
- Ellsworth County4
- Ford County4
- Gove County4
- Harvey County4
- Hodgeman County4
- Kiowa County4
- Lincoln County4
- Logan County4
- McPherson County4
- Rawlins County4
- Rice County4
- Russell County4
- Saline County4
- Sedgwick County4
- Sheridan County4
- Sumner County4
- Thomas County4
- Haskell County4
- Meade County4
- Ellis County3
- Graham County3
- Harper County3
- Jewell County3
- Kingman County3
- Lane County3
- Mitchell County3
- Ness County3
- Osborne County3
- Pawnee County3
- Pratt County3
- Reno County3
- Rooks County3
- Rush County3
- Scott County3
56 more counties
- Smith County3
- Stafford County3
- Trego County3
- Cheyenne County3
- Kearny County3
- Seward County3
- Sherman County3
- Wichita County3
- Clark County3
- Butler County3
- Cloud County3
- Cowley County3
- Dickinson County3
- Marion County3
- Ottawa County3
- Decatur County2
- Norton County2
- Phillips County2
- Grant County2
- Greeley County2
- Stevens County2
- Wallace County2
- Republic County2
- Chase County2
- Chautauqua County2
- Clay County2
- Douglas County2
- Elk County2
- Franklin County2
- Geary County2
- Greenwood County2
- Lyon County2
- Morris County2
- Osage County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Riley County2
- Shawnee County2
- Wabaunsee County2
- Hamilton County1
- Morton County1
- Stanton County1
- Anderson County1
- Brown County1
- Coffey County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Marshall County1
- Nemaha County1
- Washington County1
- Atchison County1
- Doniphan County1
- Johnson County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Linn County1
- Miami County1
- Wyandotte 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. Rebuilt daily.