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Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 2025
5 tornado watches in May 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 May 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 18, 20252 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cheyenne County2
- Decatur County2
- Logan County2
- Norton County2
- Rawlins County2
- Sherman County2
- Wallace County2
- Wichita County2
- Barton County2
- Finney County2
- Gray County2
- Harper County2
- Haskell County2
- Kearny County2
- Kingman County2
- Meade County2
- Reno County2
- Scott County2
- Seward County2
- 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
60 more counties
- Lincoln County1
- Mitchell County1
- Osborne County1
- Phillips County1
- Rice County1
- Rooks County1
- Russell County1
- Smith County1
- Allen County1
- Anderson County1
- Atchison County1
- Bourbon County1
- Brown County1
- Butler County1
- Chase County1
- Chautauqua County1
- Cherokee County1
- Clay County1
- Coffey County1
- Cowley County1
- Crawford County1
- Dickinson County1
- Doniphan County1
- Douglas County1
- Elk County1
- Franklin County1
- Geary County1
- Greenwood County1
- Harvey County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Labette County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Linn County1
- Lyon County1
- Marion County1
- Marshall County1
- Miami County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morris County1
- Nemaha County1
- Neosho County1
- Osage County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Riley County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Shawnee County1
- Sumner County1
- Wabaunsee County1
- Washington County1
- Wilson County1
- Woodson County1
- Wyandotte County1
- Grant County1
- Greeley County1
- Hamilton County1
- Morton County1
- Stanton County1
- Stevens 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.