Daily Archives: 29 December, 2009

Snapshots of a stormy Kansas spring

Here’s the next installment of photos submitted to my blog by readers. Spring in Kansas means thunderstorms – and, often, tornadoes.

Sure enough, early in the month thunderstorms rolled through the Wichita metropolitan area.
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A tornado damaged a house and property near Lake Afton early in the month, setting off sirens countywide.

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A tornado near Douglass damaged a home and farmstead in Butler County. Several brief touchdowns were reported with that storm system.

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