Rodney Price

Last night north of Herington, Kansas. We saw a brief dust whirl under this huge, rotating beast of a storm.

The sirens sounded in Herington after we retreated south but we missed the ground circulation others saw at 8:17 p.m. (the time that the sirens went off in the opening).

The link to a short video is in the comments.

Hope everyone stayed safe last night!

This one was close yesterday, around 3000 feet away by my crude estimate. Video in comments!

Change can be difficult but I hope you're getting used to our new look here on KWCH 12 News. A warm and muggy evening if you're heading down to Riverfest!

Storm Team 12 Weather Alert Day has been posted for this afternoon and evening. Hail, wind and heavy rain are the biggest concerns. Any tornado threat, while low, would be along and north of I-70, for the Russell, Hill City and Phillipsburg areas mainly. Be weather aware!

I began writing this post Wednesday afternoon, a couple of hours prior to being called by one of our reporters at KWCH-TV. They wanted my thoughts on storm chasing, specifically the crowds of chasers out on Monday, May 18 in north central Kansas.

The full blog post is here:

Chaser convergence: a high risk situation I began writing this post Wednesday afternoon, a couple of hours prior to being called by one of our reporters at KWCH-TV. They wanted my thoughts on storm chasing, specifically the crowds of chase…

I'll share some additional thoughts about this subject on my blog later this week.

Be safe out there!

‘I hope I never see that again’: 500 storm chasers create chaos in Kansas town Blue Rapids was hit by an EF1 tornado, leading to hundreds of storm chasers flooding the town.

I'm talking to you!

After a short night of sleep, we're back at it on this Tuesday morning!

Here's a timelapse of yesterday's storm near Minneapolis that I thought for sure was going to drop a tornado right in front of us.

I'll have a longer-form video at a later date.

Video link in comments.

It still appears like an active afternoon and evening for parts of central and eastern Kansas, with a solid Level 4 (red) threat. Please be sure to have multiple ways to receive weather warnings.

What month is it tomorrow?

Storms a brewin'? We be chasin'! From last Saturday. Video link in comments.