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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2018

15 tornado watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
15
Busiest month
May5 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 13, 20182 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
Apr 13, 1:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 6 more9 hr
Apr 13, 2:19 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 12 more7 hr
May 1, 2:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 36 more9 hr
May 2, 12:43 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 51 more9 hr
May 2, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more8 hr
May 28, 2:12 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 19 more8 hr
May 29, 2:19 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick and 1 more8 hr
Jun 17, 2:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne7 hr
Jul 27, 2:04 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more8 hr
Jul 29, 2:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCGreeley, Sherman, Wallace8 hr
Aug 19, 4:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCherokee7 hr
Oct 8, 5:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Doniphan4 hr
Oct 9, 12:17 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more8 hr
Oct 9, 1:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson and 5 more7 hr
Nov 30, 9:47 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more5 hr

By county

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

57 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 13, 20182tornado watches
  2. May 2, 20182tornado watches
  3. October 9, 20182tornado watches
  4. May 1, 20181tornado watches
  5. May 28, 20181tornado watches
  6. May 29, 20181tornado watches
  7. June 17, 20181tornado watches
  8. July 27, 20181tornado watches
  9. July 29, 20181tornado watches
  10. August 19, 20181tornado watches
  11. October 8, 20181tornado watches
  12. December 1, 20181tornado 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.