 There's tornadoes around Kansas all the time, so I didn't think too much of it until things started getting closer, Deb said. Looking back, if I knew then what I know now, I would have put as much stuff into my vehicle as I possibly could and gotten the heck out of Dodge. Ken stayed in Hays for supper. He got an alert on his phone that there was some severe weather developing, but he just watched it as it developed like a normal storm. He got on the road and headed for home, but the longer he drove, the more he realized the storm was developing into something dangerous.