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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2020
5 tornado watches in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest month
- May2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 28, 20201 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 28, 3:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk, Labette and 3 more | 8 hr |
| May 4, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery | 9 hr |
| May 23, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Jackson, Jewell, Marshall and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 14, 5:14 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cherokee County3
- Bourbon County2
- Chautauqua County2
- Crawford County2
- Labette County2
- Montgomery County2
- Elk County1
- Neosho County1
- Wilson County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Decatur County1
- Rawlins County1
- Sherman County1
- Thomas County1
- Wallace County1
- Brown County1
- Clay County1
- Cloud County1
- Jackson County1
- Jewell County1
- Marshall County1
- Mitchell County1
- Nemaha County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Republic County1
- Riley County1
- Washington County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.