Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2026
Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 2026
8 tornado watches in May 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 May 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 18, 20266 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 17, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth and 16 more | 8 hr |
| May 17, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Edwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa, Ness, Pawnee and 3 more | 3 hr |
| May 17, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Doniphan | 5 hr |
| May 18, 12:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth and 18 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan | 6 hr |
| May 18, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey, Cowley and 24 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Decatur | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Barton County2
- Brown County2
- Clay County2
- Cloud County2
- Dickinson County2
- Ellsworth County2
- Geary County2
- Lincoln County2
- Marshall County2
- Mitchell County2
- Nemaha County2
- Ottawa County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Republic County2
- Rice County2
- Riley County2
- Saline County2
- Washington County2
- Edwards County2
- Ford County2
- Kiowa County2
- Pawnee County2
- Pratt County2
- Stafford County2
- Doniphan County2
- Kingman County2
- Marion County2
- Reno County2
- Jewell County1
- Osborne County1
- Russell County1
- Smith County1
- Hodgeman County1
- Ness County1
- Rush County1
- Jackson County1
- McPherson County1
- Morris County1
- Barber County1
- Clark County1
30 more counties
- Comanche County1
- Atchison County1
- Anderson County1
- Butler County1
- Chase County1
- Chautauqua County1
- Coffey County1
- Cowley County1
- Douglas County1
- Elk County1
- Franklin County1
- Greenwood County1
- Harper County1
- Harvey County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Linn County1
- Lyon County1
- Miami County1
- Montgomery County1
- Osage County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Shawnee County1
- Sumner County1
- Wabaunsee County1
- Wilson County1
- Woodson County1
- Wyandotte County1
- Decatur 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.