A line of storms moved across northwestern sections of Missouri. Other thunderstorms approached west-central Missouri, but dissipated, producing wind gusts to 50 mph in and south of the Kansas City area.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS EAX wrote it up.
A line of storms moved across northwestern sections of Missouri. Other thunderstorms approached west-central Missouri, but dissipated, producing wind gusts to 50 mph in and south of the Kansas City area.
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 164 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:09 UTC.
3 high wind, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several car windows were blown out by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph.
Tree branches up to a foot in diameter were downed by non-thunderstorm winds in Raymore.
Trees were downed by non-thunderstorm winds estimated at 50 mph in Raytown.
A roof was blown off a home south of Warrensburg.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, May 1999
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5698852, 5698854, 5698853, 5698855.