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Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 2021
6 tornado watches in May 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 May 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 26, 20212 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kearny County3
- Cheyenne County3
- Greeley County3
- Sherman County3
- Wallace County3
- Grant County2
- Hamilton County2
- Stanton County2
- Decatur County2
- Finney County2
- Gove County2
- Graham County2
- Gray County2
- Haskell County2
- Lane County2
- Logan County2
- Ness County2
- Norton County2
- Rawlins County2
- Scott County2
- Sheridan County2
- Thomas County2
- Trego County2
- Wichita County2
- Clay County1
- Cloud County1
- Dickinson County1
- Douglas County1
- Franklin County1
- Geary County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lyon County1
- Morris County1
- Osage County1
- Ottawa County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Republic County1
- Riley County1
- Shawnee County1
26 more counties
- Wabaunsee County1
- Washington County1
- Morton County1
- Stevens County1
- Barton County1
- Ellsworth County1
- Lincoln County1
- McPherson County1
- Reno County1
- Rice County1
- Russell County1
- Saline County1
- Barber County1
- Clark County1
- Comanche County1
- Edwards County1
- Ellis County1
- Ford County1
- Hodgeman County1
- Kiowa County1
- Meade County1
- Pawnee County1
- Pratt County1
- Rush County1
- Seward County1
- Stafford County1
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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.