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Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2025
15 tornado watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 15
- Busiest month
- April6 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 2, 20253 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 1, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Harper, Montgomery, Sumner | 7 hr |
| Apr 1, 11:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 2, 2:28 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 2, 5:20 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 7 hr |
| Apr 20, 12:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn | 9 hr |
| Apr 28, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Dickinson, Doniphan, Geary, Jackson and 9 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 20 more | 8 hr |
| May 18, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Decatur, Ellsworth, Harper, Jewell, Kingman and 11 more | 4 hr |
| May 19, 1:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 40 more | 9 hr |
| May 28, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Finney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 12 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 3, 1:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Johnson, Linn, Miami | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 7, 1:07 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Harper, Labette, Montgomery and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 9 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Harper County6
- Chautauqua County5
- Cowley County5
- Montgomery County5
- Sumner County5
- Elk County4
- Kingman County4
- Labette County4
- Linn County4
- Cherokee County4
- Allen County3
- Butler County3
- Greenwood County3
- Morris County3
- Neosho County3
- Reno County3
- Sedgwick County3
- Wilson County3
- Woodson County3
- Atchison County3
- Doniphan County3
- Johnson County3
- Leavenworth County3
- Miami County3
- Bourbon County3
- Crawford County3
- Finney County3
- Gray County3
- Haskell County3
- Kearny County3
- Meade County3
- Seward County3
- Anderson County2
- Chase County2
- Coffey County2
- Franklin County2
- Harvey County2
- Lyon County2
- Marion County2
- Osage County2
62 more counties
- Rice County2
- Wyandotte County2
- Brown County2
- Dickinson County2
- Geary County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Marshall County2
- Nemaha County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Riley County2
- Shawnee County2
- Wabaunsee County2
- Cheyenne County2
- Decatur County2
- Logan County2
- Norton County2
- Rawlins County2
- Sherman County2
- Wallace County2
- Wichita County2
- Barton County2
- Scott County2
- Grant County2
- Hamilton County2
- Morton County2
- Stanton County2
- Stevens County2
- McPherson County1
- Saline County1
- Gove County1
- Graham County1
- Sheridan County1
- Thomas County1
- Barber County1
- Clark County1
- Comanche County1
- Edwards County1
- Ellis County1
- Ford County1
- Hodgeman County1
- Kiowa County1
- Lane County1
- Ness County1
- Pawnee County1
- Pratt County1
- Rush County1
- Stafford County1
- Trego County1
- Ellsworth County1
- Jewell County1
- Lincoln County1
- Mitchell County1
- Osborne County1
- Phillips County1
- Rooks County1
- Russell County1
- Smith County1
- Clay County1
- Douglas County1
- Washington County1
- Greeley County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.