Storms are rumbling across Kansas tonight. That often means that I'll be waking up to them in the morning. Here's a Doppler radar image taken recently. The spot of green and red mixed together west of Emporia is a possible tornado. This is a classic picture of what a tornado signature looks like on the Doppler. Whether or not it actually spawned a funnel cloud and touches down to truly become a tornado is unclear. But if I saw that heading for me I'd hunker down.
They'll sweep across Missouri overnight and cross the river around dawn. If they still have any punch left, it will be an interesting morning. We will see.
UPDATE: The worst of it stayed to the south. Southern Illinois got some of it. My weather radio alerted to one severe T-storm warning this morning and that was it. But you could see rather early in the evening last night that this had the potential to be a significant overnight event. It was just a matter of where.
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