Large tornado in Kansas

[daveg.inkc]

At 6:30 pm, a large tornado is shown on KCTV 5. Over Lawrence, headed Northeast

 

[daveg.inkc]

F-5. Saying 1 mile wide. Unbelievable size shown on tv

 

[toysoldier]

Nothing new here.

 

[daveg.inkc]

We are used to it. But, you still have to take cover.

 

[WAYNO]

My Sis' is in Belton. She says she's never seen a tornado, but we know that can change in a second. And I have shirt tail relatives in Joplin that absolutely did live thru the last big one there. Other close relatives are in Raymore and Pittsburg.




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[daveg.inkc]

Belton was close to a tornado a week ago. Sirens failed to fire! It was on news this week. Trying to get in operation.

 

[ProfessorWes]

Just checked in with my cousin in Gardner, KS, just outside the KC metro; they were right on the edge of the track but it missed them. Fortunately the storm is tracking well north of my aunt in Oak Grove, MO and my nephews in Harrisonville, MO.

Fox 4 is reporting that they've now got a "wedge" tornado on the ground near Kearney, MO, north of the river. It was generated by the same super-cell storm that did so much damage on the Kansas side earlier. Yikes.

 

[daveg.inkc]

It’s been on ground 1.5 hour, or more. Rain wrapped and getting stronger.

 

[daveg.inkc]

Now, looks like 2 on the ground.

 

[Mobuck]

"It's just farm country and no one lives there."
That was a comment made on The Weather Channel a while back. Guess they figure if weather doesn't affect LA, Atlanta, or New York, it's no big deal.

 

[gramps]

"It's just farm country and no one lives there."
That was a comment made on The Weather Channel a while back. Guess they figure if weather doesn't affect LA, Atlanta, or New York, it's no big deal.

May lightning strike the seat where that are sat! :shock: BUMS!
gramps

 

[Selena]

"It's just farm country and no one lives there."
That was a comment made on The Weather Channel a while back. Guess they figure if weather doesn't affect LA, Atlanta, or New York, it's no big deal.

That seems to be a normal attitude. Along with those that do live there are uneducated poor whites that bitterly cling to guns and religion. Historically communists have always targeted farmers as enemies and deserving of whatever misery befalls them.

 

[Pat-inCO]

It’s been on ground 1.5 hour, or more.

Now THAT is very unusual!
Normals "on ground" are measured in minutes, if that long.
Many are measured in seconds.

 

[Don Lovel]

My youngest daughter's house is along the Waukarusa river on the SW side of Lawrence. The path of this funnel went less than a half mile from her house. She had my 3 grandsons in the neighbor's cellar and she said it really roared through the trees along the river. So glad they were safe. I saw that storm developing on radar and called her, she was just leaving the grocery store parking lot, made it home, saw the huge formation and went straight to the neighbor's cellar. I am sure glad I saw it on my cell phone radar ap and called her. Probably kept her from getting caught out in the open with the kids in the car.

 

[rugerjunkie]

That storm started near my place a ways southwest of me. Was one of the more intimidating storms Ive seen since living in Kansas. I watched it pass along the ridge on the horizon and watched it build. Soon after that it hit the south edge of Lawrence and about removed the small town of Linwood from the map. Was an F4 at that point. It raised and lowered tornadoes , gained strength and weakened all along its path , but in total the cell that produced it went for over 4 hours and over 100 miles.

 

[rugerjunkie]

Here is a link to one of the more impressive pictures from that storm.

https://www.google.com/search?q=linwood+ks+tornado&client=ms-android-verizon&prmd=nisv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiykNedrMPiAhVOOq0KHbpkDj0Q_AUoAnoECA0QAg&biw=684&bih=332&dpr=2.63#imgrc=unRXEmKMPnywlM

 

[Rick Courtright]

Nothing new here.

Hi,

A cousin and his family lived in Hutchinson before they came out here (1959) and he had built what he called an "as tornado proof" house as possible. Solid brick, full basement, and a handful of "features" that meant nothing to a 9 yr old CA kid who thought the ground was supposed to rock and roll all the time. But didn't know what rain is, or tornadoes are. I do remember him joking he'd have to go find his roof to put back on when things settled down.

Cousin said back then they had one of those big "air raid" sirens a few blocks from his house, and it went off so much most folks just looked north for a second to see what was coming and generally went back to doing what they were doing.

Is that still the case in your neighborhood?

Rick C