Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2024
Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 2024
13 tornado watches in May 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest day
- May 6, 20243 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 1, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 23 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 11:34 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Ellis, Ellsworth, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln and 10 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 2:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 26 more | 12 hr |
| May 6, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey and 19 more | 8 hr |
| May 6, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 11:59 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 7 hr |
| May 20, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne | 7 hr |
| May 20, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Norton, Rawlins | 6 hr |
| May 21, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 13 more | 11 hr |
| May 25, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis and 23 more | 8 hr |
| May 25, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chautauqua and 22 more | 8 hr |
| May 26, 3:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bourbon County5
- Cherokee County5
- Crawford County5
- Barber County3
- Barton County3
- Clark County3
- Comanche County3
- Edwards County3
- Ellis County3
- Kiowa County3
- Pawnee County3
- Pratt County3
- Rush County3
- Russell County3
- Stafford County3
- Allen County3
- Chautauqua County3
- Cowley County3
- Elk County3
- Labette County3
- Montgomery County3
- Neosho County3
- Wilson County3
- Anderson County3
- Atchison County3
- Franklin County3
- Johnson County3
- Leavenworth County3
- Linn County3
- Miami County3
- Wyandotte County3
- Ford County2
- Hodgeman County2
- Ness County2
- Trego County2
- Ellsworth County2
- Jewell County2
- Lincoln County2
- Mitchell County2
- Norton County2
57 more counties
- Osborne County2
- Rooks County2
- Smith County2
- Butler County2
- Chase County2
- Greenwood County2
- Harper County2
- Harvey County2
- Kingman County2
- McPherson County2
- Marion County2
- Reno County2
- Rice County2
- Saline County2
- Sedgwick County2
- Sumner County2
- Woodson County2
- Brown County2
- Clay County2
- Cloud County2
- Coffey County2
- Dickinson County2
- Doniphan County2
- Douglas County2
- Geary County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lyon County2
- Marshall County2
- Morris County2
- Nemaha County2
- Osage County2
- Ottawa County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Republic County2
- Riley County2
- Shawnee County2
- Wabaunsee County2
- Washington County2
- Cheyenne County2
- Finney County1
- Gove County1
- Grant County1
- Gray County1
- Haskell County1
- Kearny County1
- Lane County1
- Logan County1
- Meade County1
- Scott County1
- Seward County1
- Stevens County1
- Wichita County1
- Graham County1
- Phillips County1
- Decatur County1
- Rawlins 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.