Just out of curiosity, I checked the Storm Prediction Center’s storm reports log for Friday, and sure enough - 18 tornadoes were reported around the country on Friday, including 9 in Kansas.
Not that anyone in Wichita would have had a chance to notice, given all that rain that was coming down. The Kansas tornadoes were all up in the northeastern corner of the state, in Douglas, Wyandotte and Johnson counties.
Fortunately, they were all brief touchdowns with no significant damage reported. That’s not uncommon with tornadoes that develop from hurricanes or tropical storms once they have hit land, I’ve been told. Lacking the traditional supercell structure, the clouds that develop the tornadoes aren’t able to sustain them for long.
The other tornadoes reported Friday were in Missouri and Louisiana.