Tornado... in Kansas ... in September?!

Okay, so about a week and a half ago there was a tornado in Kansas. That may not sound so strange to the folks back in Utah, but that really is a weird thing here for September. Tornado season in Wichita lasts from the beginning of May - mid June. So, on the strangeness scale, it was about the equivalent of the tornado that hit downtown SLC a few years ago. See ... strange!

Anyway, a couple small ones touched down within a few miles of the house. All we got was a lot of hail.

It hailed for about 15 minutes

You can see it falling


I tried to catch a picture of Norway as he went outside on the deck but as soon as he realized it was hailing he ran back inside :)

The largest ones we saw were probably about the size of a nickel. This is nothing compared to what other parts of the city got. Softball sized hail .... it damaged cars, put holes through windows and roofs, and knocked over trees.

A few pics from the local news website: