Winter Storm Watches in Kansas
382 winter storm watches since 1986. 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 winter storm watches reaches back to 2005.
Winter Storm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Watches
- 382
- Busiest year
- 200744 winter storm watches
- Average year
- 17over 22 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Sherman County56
- Cheyenne County55
- Rawlins County54
- Thomas County54
- Decatur County49
- Sheridan County49
- Wallace County48
- Logan County48
- Gove County47
- Graham County46
- Greeley County46
- Norton County45
- Wichita County44
- Barton County43
- Lincoln County43
- Phillips County43
- Pottawatomie County43
- Russell County43
- Atchison County42
- Doniphan County42
- Lane County42
- Riley County42
- Ellis County41
- Ellsworth County41
- Jackson County41
- Jewell County41
- McPherson County41
- Marshall County41
- Wabaunsee County41
- Brown County40
- Cloud County40
- Dickinson County40
- Geary County40
- Harvey County40
- Marion County40
- Ottawa County40
- Republic County40
- Rice County40
- Scott County40
- Shawnee County40
65 more counties
- Smith County40
- Trego County40
- Washington County40
- Chase County39
- Clay County39
- Douglas County39
- Hodgeman County39
- Jefferson County39
- Johnson County39
- Morris County39
- Nemaha County39
- Ness County39
- Rooks County39
- Rush County39
- Saline County39
- Butler County38
- Leavenworth County38
- Lyon County38
- Mitchell County38
- Osborne County38
- Pawnee County38
- Osage County37
- Sedgwick County37
- Wyandotte County37
- Finney County36
- Ford County36
- Hamilton County36
- Reno County36
- Edwards County35
- Gray County35
- Miami County35
- Stafford County35
- Woodson County35
- Anderson County34
- Coffey County34
- Franklin County34
- Greenwood County34
- Haskell County34
- Kearny County34
- Kiowa County34
- Linn County34
- Allen County33
- Kingman County33
- Grant County32
- Meade County32
- Morton County32
- Seward County32
- Stanton County32
- Stevens County32
- Sumner County32
- Pratt County31
- Clark County30
- Cowley County30
- Elk County30
- Wilson County30
- Comanche County29
- Harper County29
- Neosho County29
- Barber County28
- Bourbon County28
- Crawford County28
- Labette County28
- Montgomery County28
- Chautauqua County27
- Cherokee County26
The latest winter storm watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 1:06 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | TOP | Anderson, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas and 12 more | 24 hr |
| Jan 21, 11:49 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | EAX | Atchison, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte | 25 hr |
| Jan 21, 2:39 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | SGF | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 32 hr |
| Jan 21, 2:30 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | DDC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 35 hr |
| Jan 21, 2:20 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ICT | Allen, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley and 20 more | 33 hr |
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. Rebuilt daily.