Billy Griffin
This really doesn't belong in the NOW thread, so I just thought I'd comment here. What's really interesting to see is on the NWS color-shaded maps, you'll see that Finney County, Kansas is RED, as well as Ford and Gray counties in KS (RED also) - but what's the difference? The red for Finney County (Garden City) is for a "Blizzard Warning," while the red in Gray and Ford County, KS is for a "Tornado Warning," with a confirmed tornado on the ground at this very moment!
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ddc/
I thought this was very unique and kind of neat to see on a map like that. I do not recall seeing something like that (those two extremes so close together), although I'm sure it's happened many times before. What's also fun to think about is just how close those storms of today came close to getting into the snow covered areas of far west Kansas and eastern Colorado. What a photo that would make, eh?
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ddc/
I thought this was very unique and kind of neat to see on a map like that. I do not recall seeing something like that (those two extremes so close together), although I'm sure it's happened many times before. What's also fun to think about is just how close those storms of today came close to getting into the snow covered areas of far west Kansas and eastern Colorado. What a photo that would make, eh?