A part of the "massive storm cell" that the media have been saying may destroy the entire mideast part of the US has sort of begun passing out of our area.

There was a claim that a small "twister" passed directly over the National Weather Service Dopple Radar at the airport here (which makes Doppler sort of useless for a while) and they "evacuated the radar station" for a half hour or so.

Several small "rotation cells" were watched intensely, but so far no reports of damage.

We had some light hail, fairly heavy rain for a while (a little north of Wichita), but one of the most majestic thunder concerts in recent memory here. It was a truly glorious noise!!!!!

(Loved it immensely, but you have to get familiar with them to get to the point of really enjoying one. When Maw Nature talks to you like that, you automatically say "yes dear!".)

The system is large, and moving a little erratically, so we could get more of the same or something new and different in the next few hours, but it seems to be pretty much done with us here. Hopefully it won't intensify as it moves on east, but it's a very big system that people will want to watch for a few days.

Tornado season is only about to begin here, based on past years.

Stay tuned.

John