Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Kansas City, MO

127 
WWUS53 KEAX 240422
SVSEAX

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
1122 PM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026

MOC013-240432-
/O.CAN.KEAX.SV.W.0166.000000T0000Z-260424T0445Z/
Bates MO-
1122 PM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL BATES COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

The storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the warned 
area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until midnight CDT for
central and west central Missouri.

&&

LAT...LON 3821 9398 3863 9396 3874 9381 3883 9335
      3851 9335 3851 9352 3821 9353 3822 9357
      3820 9356
TIME...MOT...LOC 0422Z 253DEG 35KT 3876 9362 3862 9380 3827 9384 

$$

MOC083-101-159-240445-
/O.CON.KEAX.SV.W.0166.000000T0000Z-260424T0445Z/
Henry MO-Pettis MO-Johnson MO-
1122 PM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1145 PM CDT
FOR HENRY...SOUTHWESTERN PETTIS AND SOUTHEASTERN JOHNSON COUNTIES...

At 1122 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Knob Noster to near Chilhowee to near Deepwater,
moving east at 40 mph.

HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

Locations impacted include...
Warrensburg, Clinton, Windsor, Knob Noster, Whiteman Air Force Base,
La Monte, Leeton, Green Ridge, Calhoun, Deepwater, Montrose,
Chilhowee, Whiteman Afb, Coal, Brownington, Blairstown, Tightwad,
Post Oak, Hartwell, and La Due.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Remain alert for a possible tornado! Tornadoes can develop quickly
from severe thunderstorms. If you spot a tornado go at once into the
basement or small central room in a sturdy structure.

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3821 9398 3863 9396 3874 9381 3883 9335
      3851 9335 3851 9352 3821 9353 3822 9357
      3820 9356
TIME...MOT...LOC 0422Z 253DEG 35KT 3876 9362 3862 9380 3827 9384 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

Krull

873 
WWUS53 KEAX 240431
SVSEAX

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
1131 PM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026

MOC083-101-159-240445-
/O.CON.KEAX.SV.W.0166.000000T0000Z-260424T0445Z/
Henry MO-Pettis MO-Johnson MO-
1131 PM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1145 PM CDT
FOR EASTERN HENRY...SOUTHWESTERN PETTIS AND SOUTHEASTERN JOHNSON
COUNTIES...

At 1130 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from Knob Noster to near Leeton to near Deepwater, moving
east at 40 mph.

HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

Locations impacted include...
Warrensburg, Clinton, Windsor, Knob Noster, Whiteman Air Force Base,
La Monte, Leeton, Green Ridge, Calhoun, Deepwater, Whiteman Afb,
Coal, Brownington, Tightwad, Post Oak, and Truman Lake.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Remain alert for a possible tornado! Tornadoes can develop quickly
from severe thunderstorms. If you spot a tornado go at once into the
basement or small central room in a sturdy structure.

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3821 9387 3863 9382 3874 9381 3883 9335
      3851 9335 3851 9352 3821 9353 3822 9357
      3820 9356
TIME...MOT...LOC 0430Z 253DEG 35KT 3878 9354 3864 9372 3829 9376 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

Krull

844 
WWUS53 KEAX 240444
SVSEAX

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
1144 PM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026

MOC083-101-159-240454-
/O.EXP.KEAX.SV.W.0166.000000T0000Z-260424T0445Z/
Henry MO-Pettis MO-Johnson MO-
1144 PM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN HENRY...SOUTHWESTERN
PETTIS AND SOUTHEASTERN JOHNSON COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 1145 PM
CDT...

The storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. There is another 
severe thunderstorm warning in effect for Pettis County.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until midnight CDT for
central and west central Missouri.

&&

LAT...LON 3821 9387 3863 9382 3874 9381 3883 9335
      3851 9335 3851 9352 3821 9353 3822 9357
      3820 9356
TIME...MOT...LOC 0444Z 253DEG 35KT 3881 9339 3867 9357 3832 9362 

$$

Krull

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
649 PM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026

.KEY MESSAGES...

* Strong to severe thunderstorms will move into and across the area
  this evening into the early overnight.

  - Initial storms to the west are expected to carry the
    strongest/greatest potential, with gradual weakening as they
    translate east into and across Missouri

  - Any discrete (single) storms will carry an all hazards
    (hail, wind, tornado) risk.

  - Storms expected to congeal into a line through the evening,
    and would transition primary hazards to damaging winds a few
    short lived tornadoes possible along the line

* Active weather pattern looks to continue through the weekend and
  into Monday. This includes multiple chances for strong to severe
  storms.

  - Saturday evening: mainly S and W of the KC Metro

  - Sunday night/overnight: mainly S and W of line from Maryville
    to Jefferson city

  - Monday: Over much of the area, especially east

* Total rainfall accumulations from today through Monday could
  approach 3 to 4 inches across the region. This could yield
  some river and areal flooding concerns.

&&

.DISCUSSION...
Issued at 256 PM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026

A lot to unpack with this discussion.

Currently, storms are ongoing or continue to initiate over portions
of IA/NE/KS along an occluded (IA/NE) to dry line (KS/OK) boundary
extending southward out of a surface low in southern Manitoba. With
at least some sunshine along and ahead of this boundary and
concurrent with ongoing low level moisture advection, an unstable
and severe prone environment has prevailed. SPC Mesoanalysis points
to a corridor of MLCAPE >2500 J/kg concurrent with little to no cap,
>35-40 kts effective shear, steep mid-level lapse rates, and
increasing DCAPE values as you work southward from the KS/NE border.
All of this yields an unsurprisingly robust environment for at least
large hail and damaging winds. Modeled hi-res hodographs near the
boundary exhibit limited low level curvature, but forecasts suggests
some improvement as activity translates eastward. In the immediate
term, this suggests very large hail and damaging winds, with a
secondary tornadic threat. All good and well, but we are a few hours
out from activity for much of the forecast... which general
expectations are for more linear segments or clusters to form if not
full blown QLCS. Cloud cover over much of the area today has limited
the degree to which we have been able to destabilize, reflected in
the Mesoanalysis depicting showing ~1000-1500 J/kg MLCAPE values and
significant existing capping. So the show will be the linear
segments/QLCS when it arrives vs any notable open warm sector
potential. At that point, expectation remains for primary threat to
be for damaging straight line winds and the potential for some QLCS
tornadoes along segments that are able to best orient themselves
orthogonal to increasing magnitude 0-3km shear vectors. Given more
limited instability over the area, this keeps too the expectation
for greatest magnitude severe over western areas of the CWA and
gradual weakening as it moves eastward. WOFS runs and additional hi-
res guidance continue to regularly depict bowing convective
segments, which bolsters both the straight line wind and QLCS tor
thinking and all but eliminates near-severe to severe hail. SPC Day
1 updates, including introduction of 30 percent wind and additional
Sig 1 hatching generally in line with local thinking, albeit the Sig
1 tor may be a bit far eastward for our liking. That said, there is
always a butt/caveat... and here that is if there can be any
discrete or semi-discrete convection that is able to develop or
maintain into the evening and toward the metro, forecast low level
wind profiles/hodographs suggest an increased tornado threat. So,
keep an eye on storm mode. Linear/QLCS is primarily expected as
everything translates into the area, but a discrete/semi-discrete
storm will carry an elevated tornado threat. Overall, activity moves
out of the KC Metro area by around/after 10/11pm. By that time,
majority of the severe threat for damaging winds and QLCS tornadic
activity likely to be winding down as the general environment
becomes more prohibitive. General/non-severe thunder would continue
into the overnight and across the remainder of the area with true
cold front likely trailing behind by a couple/few hours.

Quiet day Friday, but the active weather pattern continues
into/through the weekend as the broader pattern continues to suggest
a messy Omega Block look setting up over the Northern CONUS into
Canada.

Saturday presents the next potential for storms, even severe, as a
shortwave traverses southern stream and surface low development over
Southern High Plains. Deterministic synoptic guidance broadly
depicts afternoon/evening development in the vicinity of a warm
frontal boundary laid up somewhere in Kansas. Currently S/SW
portions of the area (think KC area and S/SW) may be clipped by this
activity. General expectation would be for initial eastward
progressing then likely diving SE along the depicted CAPE gradients
into the evening. All hazards likely with initial convection, then
toward wind with likely MCS development given the wind and thermal
environments.

More substantial shortwave trough well depicted by synoptic
deterministic guidance moving through the southern stream, and will
provide yet another opportunity for strong/severe storms. A lot has
to transpire before we get to this point, but guidance has many
pieces in place for a potential higher end severe weather day. This
includes significant low level moisture return, potentially
significant MUCAPE depictions, pretty ideal jet placement, nicely
curved hodographs, etc as the shortwave trough and surface low
lift NE. For a few cycles, timing has been questionable, but a
recent slowing has pointed toward the warm sector remaining in
place over at least eastern Missouri into Monday afternoon. That
would allow much of the above to be in place. Any further
slowing and the entirety of Missouri could be of concern Monday
itself. But of note too, the unquestionable lift with this
system may allow for at least strong storms Sunday overnight
that could grow upscale in magnitude Monday morning/afternoon if
they are ongoing. Certainly a time period (Sunday overnight
through Monday) to watch closely as the forecast continues to
zero in on track and timing of this shortwave trough and
attendant surface low.

By Monday, should we realize multiple rounds of showers and storms,
we may be dealing with at least minor or nuisance water issues
within the area. Whether that be river flooding or localized
areal/flash flooding considering it is possible some areas see as
much as 4 inches through this time period.

&&

.AVIATION /00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z SATURDAY/...
Issued at 649 PM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026

A line of thunderstorms will move in from the west/northwest,
impacting all four terminals by 01Z tonight, dropping VIS/CIGs to
MVFR thresholds. The main line of storms should clear all terminals
by 04Z with lingering rain continuing until 05/06Z. Have opted to
include a PROB30 for -TSRA for low-end potential behind the primary
line. Precipitation should end by 06Z with clouds clearing out by
12Z Friday.

&&

.EAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...None.
KS...None.

&&

DISCUSSION...Curtis
AVIATION...Macko

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
0507 AM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026

KSZ025-057-060-102>105-MOZ001>008-011>017-020>025-028>033-037>040-
043>046-053-054-241007-
Atchison KS-Miami-Linn KS-Doniphan-Leavenworth-Wyandotte-Johnson KS-
Atchison MO-Nodaway-Worth-Gentry-Harrison-Mercer-Putnam-Schuyler-
Holt-Andrew-De Kalb-Daviess-Grundy-Sullivan-Adair-Buchanan-Clinton-
Caldwell-Livingston-Linn MO-Macon-Platte-Clay-Ray-Carroll-Chariton-
Randolph-Jackson-Lafayette-Saline-Howard-Cass-Johnson MO-Pettis-
Cooper-Bates-Henry-
0507 AM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026

This hazardous weather outlook is for northwest...north central and
west central Missouri...as well as extreme eastern Kansas.

.DAY ONE...Through tonight.

Please go to https://weather.gov/media/eax/DssPacket.pdf for more information on
potential weather hazards.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

Please go to https://weather.gov/media/eax/DssPacket.pdf for more information on
potential weather hazards.

.KEY MESSAGES...

- Severe thunderstorms will be possible to likely late this
  afternoon into late evening as a cold front moves through the
  region from west to east.

- Initial storms later this afternoon across far NW Missouri and
  NE and eastern KS may pose a threat for relatively discrete
  storms capable of all severe hazards.

- Storms should congeal into a line of thunderstorm by later
  this evening, with damaging wind gusts becoming the primary
  hazard. However, cannot rule out a couple brief tornadoes.

- Active weather pattern is likely to continue through the
  weekend and into Monday. Strong to severe storms will be
  possible on Sunday afternoon into late Sunday night and again
  on Monday.

- Total rainfall accumulations from today through Monday could
  approach 3 to 4 inches across the region. This could yield
  some flooding concerns.

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant HIll MO
1017 PM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1003 PM     Tstm Wnd Gst     1 ESE Louisburg         38.62N 94.66W
04/23/2026  E60 MPH          Miami              KS   NWS Employee

            Estimated 60 mph winds in Louisburg.

&&

BMW

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
1021 PM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026

MOZ023-024-031-032-240345-
Carroll MO-Chariton MO-Livingston MO-Linn MO-
1021 PM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT NORTHERN CHARITON...WESTERN
LINN...NORTHEASTERN CARROLL AND EASTERN LIVINGSTON COUNTIES THROUGH
1045 PM CDT...

At 1021 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Wheeling to Hale to near Bosworth.
Movement was east at 50 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Brookfield, Marceline, Brunswick, Keytesville, Meadville, Hale,
Laclede, Linneus, Wheeling, Purdin, Mendon, De Witt, Sumner,
Rothville, Triplett, and Saint Catherine.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until midnight CDT for
central and north central Missouri.

&&

LAT...LON 3938 9314 3939 9316 3940 9316 3941 9318
      3941 9320 3937 9319 3935 9325 3985 9351
      4001 9313 3947 9278
TIME...MOT...LOC 0321Z 248DEG 43KT 3979 9346 3961 9335 3946 9325

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

Krull

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant HIll MO
1028 PM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0955 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     4 ESE Parker            38.30N 94.93W
04/23/2026                   Linn               KS   Law Enforcement

            Barn destroyed. Time estimated from radar.

&&

OM

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant HIll MO
1033 PM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0931 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     7 NW Osawatomie         38.58N 95.04W
04/23/2026                   Miami              KS   Emergency Mngr

            Trees and power lines down. Time estimated
            from radar.

&&

OM

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant HIll MO
1041 PM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0859 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     5 E Ferrelview          39.30N 94.57W
04/23/2026                   Clay               MO   Public

            Tree limbs down. Report relayed via social
            media.

&&

OM

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant HIll MO
1043 PM CDT Thu Apr 23 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0941 PM     Tstm Wnd Gst     4 NW Missouri City      39.28N 94.34W
04/23/2026  M65 MPH          Clay               MO   Public

            Report from personal weather station.

&&

OM