Bad storms in the Midwest...anyone affected?
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From: Pratt, KS
Originally Posted by PSS-Mag
Nope... National Weather Service Report from Sunday evening.
There were probably more than 121 total, but only 121 tornados actually registered on radar or confirmed by trained spotters to be recognized by the NWS. Probably 1/2 the high wind reports were unidentified tornados but since radar nor spooter seen it then it is classified as high straight line winds.
Here's a link to the compiled analysis. This only shows a portion of the affected areas, but comparing the area available below to the report map above, it's easy to see many of those reports were of the same tornado.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/eax/?n=events-mar122006
But as you said, since there were no spotters to confirm radar observations, there were probably more unconfirmed tornados.