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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2022
7 tornado watches in 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest month
- April3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 29, 20222 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 21, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 29, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 39 more | 7 hr |
| May 2, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards and 9 more | 8 hr |
| May 30, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 33 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha | 6 hr |
| Dec 12, 9:16 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Barber County3
- Clark County3
- Comanche County3
- Kiowa County3
- Pratt County3
- Brown County3
- Chautauqua County3
- Cowley County3
- Marshall County3
- Nemaha County3
- Sumner County3
- Edwards County2
- Ford County2
- Hodgeman County2
- Anderson County2
- Butler County2
- Chase County2
- Clay County2
- Coffey County2
- Dickinson County2
- Douglas County2
- Elk County2
- Franklin County2
- Geary County2
- Greenwood County2
- Harvey County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Labette County2
- Lyon County2
- McPherson County2
- Marion County2
- Montgomery County2
- Morris County2
- Osage County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Reno County2
- Riley County2
- Sedgwick County2
- Shawnee County2
39 more counties
- Wabaunsee County2
- Harper County2
- Kingman County2
- Atchison County2
- Doniphan County2
- Barton County1
- Ellis County1
- Ness County1
- Pawnee County1
- Rush County1
- Russell County1
- Stafford County1
- Trego County1
- Decatur County1
- Graham County1
- Jewell County1
- Mitchell County1
- Norton County1
- Osborne County1
- Phillips County1
- Rooks County1
- Sheridan County1
- Smith County1
- Allen County1
- Cloud County1
- Ellsworth County1
- Lincoln County1
- Neosho County1
- Ottawa County1
- Republic County1
- Rice County1
- Saline County1
- Washington County1
- Wilson County1
- Woodson County1
- Johnson County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Miami County1
- Wyandotte 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.