Alert archive / Kansas

Weather alerts in Wyandotte County, Kansas

3,668 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Wyandotte County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
3,668
Warnings
1,085
Watches
644
Advisories
756
Busiest year
2010226 alerts
Average year
89over 41 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

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 67% of tornado reports in Wyandotte County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 21 minutes before, and 62% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20085260%1100%6 min
200910100%10%
20112150%0
2015110%0
201620100%0
20192150%1100%35 min
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008292514%8100%19 min
2009131023%683%23 min
2010342235%1464%19 min
2011272315%0
20126517%1100%26 min
2013990%0
2014191426%3100%24 min
2015151033%3100%23 min
201627257%1275%15 min
2017262312%2176%29 min
2018221627%0
2019231439%6100%25 min
2020191521%580%25 min
2021211719%9100%16 min
202214936%475%18 min
2023211719%12100%22 min
202437363%6993%22 min
202527257%5589%26 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810550%2100%36 min
200910640%425%96 min
20109544%10%
2013220%0
201510820%0
20168713%5100%156 min
201710820%6100%178 min
2018110%0
20199633%1100%92 min
20202150%0
20215340%0
2023220%0
20245420%0
2025660%786%145 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 15, 8:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAX4 hr
Sep 6, 7:55 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningEAX48 hr
Sep 6, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX46 min
Sep 6, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX41 min
Sep 5, 7:54 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningEAX24 hr
Sep 3, 11:30 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningEAX57 hr
Aug 21, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX39 min
Aug 21, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX40 min
Aug 19, 3:19 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningEAX4 hr
Aug 19, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatEAX50 min
Aug 19, 1:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX23 min
Aug 19, 1:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX45 min

Nearby

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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.