Severe weather expected after dark, including damaging winds, hail, tornadoes in KC
It’s expected to be a stormy night in Kansas City as a line of strong to severe thunderstorms are expected to sweep across the area bringing the threat of damaging winds, hail and maybe tornadoes.
The severe weather is expected to develop after sunset and continue until early Wednesday afternoon, Sarah Atkins, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Kansas City, said during a weather briefing.
Far northwest Missouri and far northeast Kansas face the highest risk for severe weather. As the line of storms move south and east, it will get weaker.
“But that does not mean that severe weather is not possible everywhere else,” Atkins said. “So we do want everyone to remain weather aware.”
Kansas City is included in an area that stretches from Wichita north into Iowa that has the greatest risk of seeing damaging winds with speeds above 60 mph. Those in Atchison, Nodaway, Holt and parts of Worth counties in Missouri could see winds exceeding 75 mph.
The metro area is also included in an area that is at risk of a couple of tornadoes as well as hail that is the size of quarters or a little bit larger.
The severe weather is likely to move into the Kansas City area between midnight and 3 a.m. with storms ending between 5 and 7 a.m. Wednesday. Some storms could linger in central Missouri as late as 3 p.m. Wednesday from Kirksville to near Clinton and Butler before finally pushing to the east.
People are urged to have multiple ways to get weather alerts and warnings.
This story was originally published April 12, 2022 at 4:18 PM.
