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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2023

14 tornado watches in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
14
Busiest month
May3 tornado watches
Busiest day
September 21, 20232 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 2, 3:34 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 8 more6 hr
Feb 26, 3:33 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt6 hr
Apr 19, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Coffey, Dickinson, Doniphan and 13 more7 hr
May 10, 2:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more7 hr
May 11, 12:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 29 more8 hr
May 12, 7:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Leavenworth3 hr
Jun 17, 4:34 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Meade, Morton, Seward and 1 more6 hr
Jun 21, 2:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stevens7 hr
Jul 6, 8:18 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCGrant, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan, Scott and 4 more7 hr
Jul 13, 5:02 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHamilton, Morton, Stanton6 hr
Aug 9, 4:04 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCherokee6 hr
Sep 21, 2:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDecatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton, Phillips and 4 more9 hr
Sep 21, 4:49 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCJewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith7 hr
Oct 12, 1:12 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDecatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 4 more6 hr

By county

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

39 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. September 21, 20232tornado watches
  2. January 2, 20231tornado watches
  3. February 26, 20231tornado watches
  4. April 19, 20231tornado watches
  5. May 10, 20231tornado watches
  6. May 11, 20231tornado watches
  7. May 13, 20231tornado watches
  8. June 17, 20231tornado watches
  9. June 21, 20231tornado watches
  10. July 7, 20231tornado watches
  11. July 13, 20231tornado watches
  12. August 9, 20231tornado watches

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.