Tornado Watch #37 – Kansas City Area

Updated: 1910 hours CDT

TORNADO WATCH 37 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS:

* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning from 545 PM until 100 AM CDT. *

Primary threats include… A couple tornadoes possible Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5 inches in diameter likely Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

SUMMARY… Scattered thunderstorms will affect the watch area through the evening, with a few supercells possible. Very large hail and a tornado or two may occur with the strongest cells. The tornado watch area is approximately along and 55 statute miles north and south of a line from 35 miles southwest of Manhattan KS to 60 miles east southeast of Chillicothe MO.

at 19:10 hours, the above image was captured showing the development of the incoming weather. This weather was not showing on radar 30 minutes prior. These storms are moving northeast across the area.