Funnel Cloud Sweeps Over Kansas Amid Tornado Watch
A meteorology student spotted a brief funnel cloud spinning near Dexter, Kansas, during a tornado warning in the area on May 31.
Andrew Messersmith filmed a video that shows a small funnel cloud forming in the distance. “There it is! There it is! There it goes.” a man says in the video.
A local National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for parts of Kansas on Tuesday. KOCO 5 News reported that a tornado touched down near Duke on the same date. Credit: Andrew Messersmith via Storyful
Video transcript
[WIND WHIPPING]
- [INAUDIBLE] You can't see the ground, but that is at least-- there it is! There it is.
BOTH: There it goes!
[WIND WHIPPING]
- No way.
- I can't see the ground circulation because it's over the hill, but I think it was at least down for a couple seconds.
[ALARM SOUNDING IN THE DISTANCE]
- How is that northward jog? It's, like, right there, right?
- We're kind of on it, I think.
- Oh, that's unfortunate.
