Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2017
Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 2017
6 tornado watches in May 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 May 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 18, 20172 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 16, 2:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 20 more | 8 hr |
| May 17, 12:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Cloud, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson and 10 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey and 24 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 3:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 31 more | 7 hr |
| May 19, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 9 more | 4 hr |
| May 27, 12:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Johnson, Linn, Miami | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Johnson County3
- Barber County2
- Barton County2
- Clark County2
- Comanche County2
- Edwards County2
- Finney County2
- Ford County2
- Gray County2
- Haskell County2
- Hodgeman County2
- Kiowa County2
- Meade County2
- Ness County2
- Pawnee County2
- Pratt County2
- Rush County2
- Russell County2
- Seward County2
- Stafford County2
- Atchison County2
- Brown County2
- Cloud County2
- Doniphan County2
- Douglas County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Leavenworth County2
- Marshall County2
- Nemaha County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Republic County2
- Shawnee County2
- Washington County2
- Wyandotte County2
- Linn County2
- Miami County2
- Butler County2
- Chase County2
- Chautauqua County2
37 more counties
- Cowley County2
- Elk County2
- Greenwood County2
- Harper County2
- Harvey County2
- Kingman County2
- McPherson County2
- Marion County2
- Reno County2
- Rice County2
- Sedgwick County2
- Sumner County2
- Ellis County1
- Grant County1
- Kearny County1
- Lane County1
- Scott County1
- Stevens County1
- Trego County1
- Anderson County1
- Clay County1
- Coffey County1
- Dickinson County1
- Franklin County1
- Geary County1
- Lyon County1
- Morris County1
- Osage County1
- Ottawa County1
- Riley County1
- Wabaunsee County1
- Ellsworth County1
- Lincoln County1
- Saline County1
- Bourbon County1
- Cherokee County1
- Crawford County1
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.