Flash flood watch issued for Kansas City ahead of overnight storms
Kansas City and the surrounding area have been placed under a flash flood watch as thunderstorms were expected to move through the region overnight, according to the National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill.
The watch is in effect from 10 p.m. Thursday through Friday afternoon. It includes parts of Kansas and west-central Missouri, including Johnson, Wyandotte, Miami and Leavenworth counties in Kansas and Jackson, Clay, Platte and Cass counties in Missouri.
Up to 3 inches of rain is possible in the watch area as heavy rain is expected during these thunderstorms, the weather service said in a tweet Thursday afternoon.
In a Thursday afternoon weather update to The Star, FOX4 meteorologist Joe Lauria said the storms were expected to settle down into the metro late Thursday and Friday morning.
“We’re going to have some iffy weather for the next couple of days,” Lauria said. “And our temperatures will not be as warm as the weather we got to enjoy for today.”
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