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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2017

15 tornado watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
15
Busiest month
May6 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 1, 20172 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
Feb 28, 2:19 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford7 hr
Feb 28, 6:23 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCLinn, Miami5 hr
Feb 28, 9:04 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 4 more7 hr
Mar 6, 2:27 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 15 more8 hr
Mar 6, 6:51 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 8 more8 hr
Mar 29, 3:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey, Crawford and 11 more7 hr
May 16, 2:16 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 20 more8 hr
May 17, 12:08 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Cloud, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson and 10 more7 hr
May 18, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey and 24 more7 hr
May 18, 3:21 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 31 more7 hr
May 19, 4:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCButler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 9 more4 hr
May 27, 12:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Johnson, Linn, Miami7 hr
Oct 1, 3:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 16 more8 hr
Oct 2, 5:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFinney, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny and 10 more6 hr
Oct 14, 5:09 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCJohnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte8 hr

By county

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

61 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 1, 20172tornado watches
  2. May 18, 20172tornado watches
  3. February 28, 20171tornado watches
  4. March 6, 20171tornado watches
  5. March 7, 20171tornado watches
  6. March 29, 20171tornado watches
  7. May 16, 20171tornado watches
  8. May 17, 20171tornado watches
  9. May 19, 20171tornado watches
  10. May 27, 20171tornado watches
  11. October 1, 20171tornado watches
  12. October 2, 20171tornado watches

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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.