This hasn’t been the most active year for tornadoes.
National Weather Service meteorologist Chad Omitt represents the Topeka forecast office. He says the coverage area, which includes Lyon and most surrounding counties, had 18 tornadoes earlier this year. It’s low compared to the yearly average, but it is up from the recent past.
The Wichita office has not announced stats to this point. So far, there have been no tornadoes in most of the KVOE listening area, but Madison had an EF-0 tornado touch down briefly in mid-June.
