Wichita, Kansas - With a wetter than normal winter and the jet stream in the right place, the set-up is here for an active tornado season.
A tornado this week ripped through central Oklahoma and the twenty year anniversary of the Hesston tornado is later this week.
"Could be another busy day with the threat for strong thunderstorms," says KSN Meteorologist Dave Freeman, "and it's possible the way the atmosphere is setting up."
Freeman says it's difficult making long-term projections on tornado season. But, the potential for tornadoes is here with that jet stream pattern.
"If this pattern persists," says Freeman, "it will eventually migrate further north with the warming of spring. That would potentially give us an active weather pattern."
Freeman says it's early for the traditional tornado activity to become active. In fact, Freeman says it's been a very slow tornado month in February across the country. Normally the U.S. has about eighty tornadoes in the month of Februray. This year the total was just one.
"You never know,"says Freeman. "We could see strong activity followed by a lull. But, make no mistake, the season is now upon us.
