Multiple Tornado Warnings in Kansas

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[MikefromOhio]

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ict/mainpg/mainpg2.php

Click the link for the current Witchita, KS NWS homepage...

Keep your heads down Kansas FReepers!!!

[DTogo]

See you guys in Oz!

[badpacifist]

Wont be in my neighborhood until the middle of the night. Not the best time for tornadoes. I would rather it be daytime so I can duck.

[MikefromOhio]

yeah...

tornadoes at night aren't good....

[yarddog]

I hope they miss Smallville this time.

[rwfromkansas]

A family had 4 go through their farm field.

Incredible.

Amazing that the house only had minor damage and they were not hurt.

[rwfromkansas]

A family from my church, that is.

[MikefromOhio]

wow!!

That must have been a wild night....

[Prov3456]

In 1995, when my children were 10 and 11, we had an "un-tornado" go through our neighborhood at 1:30 am. What you hear about a "train" roaring through is correct. All four of us were awakened and instantly RAN to the basement; no one had to think about it or ask questions. If you have time to think about it, the storm is not a tornado.

The National Weather Service wouldn't call our storm a tornado because it appeared so suddenly that they weren't able to track it. (It wouldn't do to have the weather service be caught unawares, so they simply called it a major storm with "straight-line winds." /sarcasm) Our pictures show tree branches, lawn furniture and trash facing all 360-degrees. The 10-inch diameter maple tree in our front yard was nothing but an 8-foot tall toothpick. But it "wasn't" a tornado....

Hopefully the storms will pass you by. If you need to take shelter, you'll KNOW it--no matter what time of day or night.