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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2021
14 tornado watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 14
- Busiest month
- May6 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 26, 20212 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Douglas, Franklin, Geary and 12 more | 7 hr |
| May 15, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 5 hr |
| May 23, 1:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Sherman, Wallace | 8 hr |
| May 24, 1:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant and 18 more | 9 hr |
| May 26, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Reno, Rice and 2 more | 8 hr |
| May 26, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 29 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 24, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 19, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 6 hr |
| Sep 2, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 10, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Labette | 5 hr |
| Oct 12, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 12, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clark, Comanche and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 26, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 15, 1:23 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Doniphan, Jackson, Jewell and 8 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cheyenne County5
- Sherman County5
- Ness County5
- Trego County5
- Clay County4
- Cloud County4
- Jackson County4
- Pottawatomie County4
- Republic County4
- Riley County4
- Washington County4
- Kearny County4
- Greeley County4
- Wallace County4
- Decatur County4
- Graham County4
- Lane County4
- Norton County4
- Rawlins County4
- Thomas County4
- Barton County4
- Ellsworth County4
- Lincoln County4
- Russell County4
- Ellis County4
- Rush County4
- Jewell County4
- Mitchell County4
- Ottawa County3
- Grant County3
- Hamilton County3
- Stanton County3
- Finney County3
- Gove County3
- Gray County3
- Haskell County3
- Logan County3
- Scott County3
- Sheridan County3
- Wichita County3
48 more counties
- Reno County3
- Rice County3
- Saline County3
- Barber County3
- Clark County3
- Comanche County3
- Edwards County3
- Ford County3
- Hodgeman County3
- Kiowa County3
- Pawnee County3
- Pratt County3
- Stafford County3
- Marshall County3
- Nemaha County3
- Dickinson County2
- Geary County2
- Lyon County2
- Morris County2
- Osage County2
- Shawnee County2
- Wabaunsee County2
- Morton County2
- Stevens County2
- McPherson County2
- Meade County2
- Seward County2
- Brown County2
- Doniphan County2
- Osborne County2
- Phillips County2
- Rooks County2
- Smith County2
- Harper County2
- Kingman County2
- Douglas County1
- Franklin County1
- Jefferson County1
- Atchison County1
- Cherokee County1
- Labette County1
- Butler County1
- Chase County1
- Cowley County1
- Harvey County1
- Marion County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Sumner 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. Rebuilt daily.