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Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 2018
5 tornado watches in May 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 May 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 2, 20182 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 1, 2:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 36 more | 9 hr |
| May 2, 12:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 51 more | 9 hr |
| May 2, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more | 8 hr |
| May 28, 2:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 19 more | 8 hr |
| May 29, 2:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick and 1 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Barber County3
- Clark County3
- Comanche County3
- Harper County3
- Kingman County3
- Rush County3
- Russell County3
- Barton County2
- Clay County2
- Cloud County2
- Dickinson County2
- Edwards County2
- Ellis County2
- Ellsworth County2
- Ford County2
- Geary County2
- Harvey County2
- Hodgeman County2
- Jewell County2
- Kiowa County2
- Lincoln County2
- McPherson County2
- Marion County2
- Marshall County2
- Mitchell County2
- Nemaha County2
- Ness County2
- Osborne County2
- Ottawa County2
- Pawnee County2
- Phillips County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Pratt County2
- Reno County2
- Republic County2
- Rice County2
- Riley County2
- Rooks County2
- Saline County2
- Smith County2
47 more counties
- Stafford County2
- Washington County2
- Sedgwick County2
- Sumner County2
- Anderson County1
- Brown County1
- Butler County1
- Chase County1
- Coffey County1
- Cowley County1
- Douglas County1
- Elk County1
- Franklin County1
- Gray County1
- Greenwood County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lyon County1
- Meade County1
- Morris County1
- Osage County1
- Seward County1
- Shawnee County1
- Wabaunsee County1
- Atchison County1
- Doniphan County1
- Johnson County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Linn County1
- Miami County1
- Wyandotte County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Decatur County1
- Gove County1
- Graham County1
- Greeley County1
- Lane County1
- Logan County1
- Norton County1
- Rawlins County1
- Scott County1
- Sheridan County1
- Sherman County1
- Thomas County1
- Trego County1
- Wallace County1
- Wichita 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.