Kansas is part of Great Plains
Every Great Plains region shares one system — the same maps, the same live radar, the same climate record. Kansas sits in the middle of Tornado Alley and has the storm climatology to prove it — Greensburg in 2007, Andover in 1991 and 2022, and a statewide average north of ninety tornadoes a year. The dryline sets up over the western third in spring and the supercells fire east of it toward Wichita. The state also tilts: Elkhart in the far southwest is 3,600 feet and semi-arid, the eastern border is 700 feet and humid, and the Flint Hills in between are the last big piece of unplowed tallgrass prairie in North America.