Tornado Alley

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Last night in Kansas we had severe storms move through the state. I was tracking the storm's progress and saw something on the Weather Underground's "Wundermap" live weather national radar I had never seen in all my years of living in Kansas, keeping in mind I have been here 43 years. I zoomed in on Kansas on the map and there were 10 tornadoes on the ground at the same time. Andover Kansas, just east of Wichita, was hit. You all might remember the famous tornado video where the news people outrun a tornado and hide under an interstate overpass with a family. That was the Andover tornado from 1991 that hit Andover and then headed NE along the Kansas turnpike. There were fatalities in 1991, but none last night. Lots of damage though. Here is a link to the Twitter feed featuring a number of videos of last night's 2022 Andover tornado. Estimated to be an EF2 or EF3. There were 14 reported touchdowns last night state-wide.

 
A real disaster. Lucky that you are well.!!!
Thanks, Louis, but most of the tornadoes were in the south-central part of the states, probably 150 miles away or so. There was one to the NW, about 25 miles from my house. We got 2 inches of rain. I looked out during the height of the storm and the rain was going past my window horizontally, that is how heavy the wind was.
 
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Take care & stay safe.

Cheers!
That's no joke. I respect the weather now, but I remember back in the day my roommate and I were out in the front yard of the house we rented looking for the tornado. We didn't see it until we looked straight up and the rotation was right above us. Dude you never saw two guys get into a basement faster than we did. And we didn't spill any of our beer in the process.
 
Some of that footage in the Twitter feed I referenced was uploaded by three OU meteorology students who were storm chasing and who subsequently were killed in an automobile accident on their way back to Norman Oklahoma. Prayers to their families and friends.
 
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