Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2026
Tornado Watches in Kansas, April 2026
12 tornado watches in April 2026. 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 April 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest day
- April 1, 20262 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Harper, Labette and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 1, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn, Miami | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Doniphan | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jewell, Phillips, Republic, Smith, Washington | 3 hr |
| Apr 13, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Johnson, Linn and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 15, 2:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Johnson, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte | 6 hr |
| Apr 17, 1:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Bourbon, Brown and 34 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 23, 2:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 35 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 26, 9:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche and 19 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wilson County7
- Chautauqua County6
- Cowley County6
- Labette County6
- Montgomery County6
- Neosho County6
- Sumner County6
- Allen County6
- Harper County5
- Linn County5
- Miami County5
- Elk County5
- Bourbon County4
- Cherokee County4
- Crawford County4
- Butler County4
- Greenwood County4
- Harvey County4
- Sedgwick County4
- Woodson County4
- Barber County3
- Anderson County3
- Coffey County3
- Douglas County3
- Franklin County3
- Johnson County3
- Lyon County3
- Osage County3
- Wyandotte County3
- Chase County3
- Marion County3
- Comanche County2
- Doniphan County2
- Republic County2
- Washington County2
- Brown County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Morris County2
- Shawnee County2
25 more counties
- Wabaunsee County2
- Kingman County2
- Reno County2
- Jewell County1
- Phillips County1
- Smith County1
- Atchison County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Clay County1
- Cloud County1
- Dickinson County1
- Geary County1
- McPherson County1
- Marshall County1
- Nemaha County1
- Ottawa County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Riley County1
- Saline County1
- Clark County1
- Edwards County1
- Kiowa County1
- Pawnee County1
- Pratt County1
- Stafford County1
Nearby
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.