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today. we've heard reports of four tornadoes that touched down in kansas today. what's the latest? >> the good news is that these are in extremely rural areas but let me start with this note for you. the month of may is the most explosive month, the greatest number of tornadoes in the u.s., roughly 384. halfway through the month, on the 15th of the month, we only had three but on that day, on the 15th, it was hood county, texas and the fatalities in granbury, then shawnee and we know about moore that followed. we have severe thunderstorm watches with funnel clouds that were in western kansas but it's the red box, this is the tornado watch box, this is in effect until 10:00 p.m. central time, and this is where we've had the four tornadoes. the first one as we saw the pictures there of corning, did drop and it briefly dissipated for awhile. then it was near the town of minneapolis, not minnesota, this is minneapolis in kansas, and then just south of there, we also had one near bennington. salina, just north of salina, a