Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2019

Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 2019

22 tornado watches in May 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 May 2019. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
22
Busiest day
May 24, 20194 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 5:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Coffey and 22 more7 hr
May 6, 6:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 19 more6 hr
May 7, 3:31 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Butler, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 17 more6 hr
May 7, 9:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Harper, Labette and 5 more8 hr
May 17, 2:59 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more9 hr
May 17, 8:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 15 more5 hr
May 17, 10:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Cloud, Dickinson, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne and 3 more3 hr
May 18, 10:07 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 11 more7 hr
May 20, 5:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery8 hr
May 22, 3:32 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAllen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 5 more7 hr
May 22, 9:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery8 hr
May 23, 3:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Kiowa, Meade, Pratt and 1 more7 hr
May 23, 5:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCButler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth and 16 more6 hr
May 23, 9:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford4 hr
May 24, 1:37 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 33 more5 hr
May 24, 2:18 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 21 more8 hr
May 24, 6:04 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBourbon, Crawford, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more5 hr
May 25, 3:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Meade, Seward7 hr
May 26, 1:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant and 18 more9 hr
May 28, 1:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 21 more8 hr
May 28, 2:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 14 more7 hr
May 28, 5:38 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCJewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith3 hr

By county

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

65 more counties

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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.