I'm afraid we're pretty much in the wide open flats as far as exposure is concerned. The house might basically be called a "ranch style," but with multiple add-ons by previous occupants it's ceased to have the "boxcar" look that's typical for that style and now suggests more of a train wreck.

Wichita is built sort of on the side of a hill, although you have to look pretty hard to detect it from ground level. I think the elevation range for the city is about 100 feet or so, and we are sort of on the high side of town.

We do have a couple of families of transient mallards that wander through the neighborhood regularly. They seem to be year-around residents. 'Possums are far too plentiful. Cottontails and squirrels are pretty abundant.

Our real weather concern is the five 60+ year old elm trees (very brittle) and four ~50 y.o. oaks on the lot, that loom over everything and frequently drop large chunks when the weather changes. Damocles comes to mind, but they're too big to remove conveniently, and too old to be easily maintained in "safe" condition.

Perhaps of interest:

National Weather Service, US gives an overall view of what's going on in the US as a whole.

If you zoom in on the Kansas area, at NWS Warnings you can see what's going on now in our vicinity or a bit west of us where most of today's bad stuff is.

Dodge City KS Doppler Radar gives the really informative look at wind velocities – where adjacent red/green indicates wind shears likely to spawn tornado weather. (Wichita may show on the map briefly while it loads, but gets covered by the "legend" at the right edge.)

Actual confirmation of a tornado usually comes only when it's seen by spotters on the ground. There have been a half-dozen or more "confirmed" today, but none that stayed down long or appear to have caused significant damage. All of the cells of interest are in the ones shown today (so far) in the Dodge City area.

John