Friday, May 02, 2008

KANSAS CITY MetroRegion WEATHER: Tornado Watch Continues



Tornado Watch No. 244 continues in effect for a large part of eastern Kansas and western Missouri until 1am..


The Storm prediction Center has made mention of issuing a new watch- which will include the Metro and parts of the Kansas City MetroRegion further into this Friday morning.

The supercell thunderstorms in eastern Kansas moved into western Missouri and weakened. The ominous-looking line further west will crank over the Kansas City Metro early Friday morning.
I'm worried now about strong- possibly damaging- straight-line winds with this line of storms- particularily from the area along and south of the Missouri & Kansas rivers- especially Linn- Miami- southern Johnson counties KS and Bates- Cass and southern Jackson counties MO..

Here's a photo- taken on M-150 near Holmes when Johnson County KS was under a Tornado Warning earlier tonight. We were in Belton a little later- near where the tornado was reported to have "briefly" touched down at 215th Street & Prospect.



I'll post further updates here- since it's too dark for chasing.

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