Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2023
Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 2023
3 tornado watches in May 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 May 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 10, 20231 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 10, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Rawlins, Sheridan and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 12:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 29 more | 8 hr |
| May 12, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Leavenworth | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cheyenne County2
- Decatur County2
- Graham County2
- Norton County2
- Rawlins County2
- Sheridan County2
- Sherman County2
- Thomas County2
- Clark County1
- Comanche County1
- Edwards County1
- Ellis County1
- Finney County1
- Ford County1
- Gove County1
- Grant County1
- Gray County1
- Greeley County1
- Hamilton County1
- Haskell County1
- Hodgeman County1
- Kearny County1
- Kiowa County1
- Lane County1
- Logan County1
- Meade County1
- Ness County1
- Pawnee County1
- Rush County1
- Scott County1
- Seward County1
- Stevens County1
- Trego County1
- Wallace County1
- Wichita County1
- Atchison County1
- Brown County1
- Doniphan County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
1 more counties
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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.