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Tornado

4:24 am here, I am just going to bed. Tornado passed 6 miles south of my farm tonight, another was warned just a mile south but I believe it stayed in the air.  We(fire and rescue) have been to every farmstead on the path to make sure everyone is ok, one cut up woman, alot of frayed nerves, quite a bit of destruction(one cow cut up so badly her intestines were dragging). It must have been a fairly weak tornado, but nevertheless, it wrecked quite a few buildings and trees, but did serious damage to only one house.  Even though it passed through the rural area only, it managed to bullseye a large number of farmsteads. 

We had been in a tornado watch since late afternoon.  A squall line formed just to the east and I believed it had all passed us.  About 9:30 the weather radio began going off in alarm mode, I would guess it went off 30 times by 11pm.  A line formed west of Wichita and headed slowly this way, about 10 pm a tornado warning was issued for an area 20 miles northwest of here, within minutes another was issued for the area hit to the south of us and our immediate area, within seconds the Sheriff paged the fire department to spot.  I roused Mrs KF and sent her to my parents, you could see the wedge shaped cloud clearly in the lightning(and man did we have alot of that) along with hail that eventually drove me to seek shelter back in the machine shed, all the while hoping it didn't hit and drop a beam on me.  The radar indicated rotation directly above the town nearest me, but evidently that never touched down but 6 miles from here it definitely was on the ground for a very long time.  Hit at least 12 farmsteads I know of. 

Will try to get out with camera in the morning(later today actually) although might have some issues posting pics of things that belong to other people. 

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flash jacques said:

Glad to hear you are all more or less OK. You're a tough lot, our climate in W Europe is a good deal more clement!

May 3, 2008 2:51 AM [Delete]
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