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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2019
31 tornado watches in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 31
- Busiest month
- May22 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 24, 20194 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 12:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho | 13 hr |
| May 6, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Coffey and 22 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 17 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Harper, Labette and 5 more | 8 hr |
| May 17, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 9 hr |
| May 17, 8:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 15 more | 5 hr |
| May 17, 10:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne and 3 more | 3 hr |
| May 18, 10:07 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 20, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery | 8 hr |
| May 22, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 5 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery | 8 hr |
| May 23, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Kiowa, Meade, Pratt and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 23, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 9:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 4 hr |
| May 24, 1:37 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 33 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 2:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 21 more | 8 hr |
| May 24, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Crawford, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 25, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Meade, Seward | 7 hr |
| May 26, 1:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant and 18 more | 9 hr |
| May 28, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 21 more | 8 hr |
| May 28, 2:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 14 more | 7 hr |
| May 28, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 2:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase and 40 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 20, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 11, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 13, 12:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 15, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur and 44 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 1, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 28, 3:49 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Montgomery County9
- Comanche County9
- Elk County8
- McPherson County8
- Barber County8
- Clark County8
- Kiowa County8
- Crawford County7
- Labette County7
- Butler County7
- Cowley County7
- Ellsworth County7
- Greenwood County7
- Harper County7
- Kingman County7
- Marion County7
- Morris County7
- Rice County7
- Saline County7
- Wilson County7
- Pratt County7
- Stafford County7
- Chautauqua County7
- Dickinson County7
- Bourbon County6
- Cherokee County6
- Neosho County6
- Allen County6
- Anderson County6
- Barton County6
- Chase County6
- Coffey County6
- Harvey County6
- Lyon County6
- Reno County6
- Sedgwick County6
- Sumner County6
- Woodson County6
- Edwards County6
- Meade County6
65 more counties
- Cheyenne County6
- Decatur County6
- Gove County6
- Logan County6
- Rawlins County6
- Sheridan County6
- Sherman County6
- Thomas County6
- Wallace County6
- Clay County6
- Cloud County6
- Ottawa County6
- Geary County6
- Pottawatomie County6
- Riley County6
- Douglas County5
- Franklin County5
- Osage County5
- Ford County5
- Pawnee County5
- Seward County5
- Graham County5
- Greeley County5
- Norton County5
- Wichita County5
- Lincoln County5
- Russell County5
- Mitchell County5
- Republic County5
- Washington County5
- Wabaunsee County5
- Gray County4
- Haskell County4
- Hodgeman County4
- Rush County4
- Osborne County4
- Linn County4
- Jackson County4
- Shawnee County4
- Finney County3
- Grant County3
- Hamilton County3
- Kearny County3
- Lane County3
- Morton County3
- Ness County3
- Scott County3
- Stanton County3
- Stevens County3
- Jewell County3
- Marshall County3
- Nemaha County3
- Ellis County2
- Trego County2
- Brown County2
- Johnson County2
- Leavenworth County2
- Miami County2
- Wyandotte County2
- Jefferson County2
- Phillips County2
- Rooks County2
- Smith County2
- Atchison County1
- Doniphan County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.