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";s:4:"text";s:7244:"Sign up for email alerts and be the first to know when news breaks. At 8:32 p.m. the National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill, Missouri, tweeted, “Tornado circulations are east of the #KC metro now. Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand. Brett Favre wonders if Chiefs did the right thing by signing Le’Veon Bell, Officials announce Raytown plan to help at-risk youth, solve more business robberies, Marshall and Trump have single-digit leads in Kansas as NYT poll shows tight races, Woman in custody after child kidnapping leads to high-speed chase through Johnson County, Missouri voters must return mail ballots through USPS after court sides with Ashcroft, Plaza building covered with graffiti after protests now a canvas for giant artwork. Because swollen rivers and tributaries can cover a lot of territory, flood alerts typically go out to a wider area than do tornado alerts. “I live on a hill,” said Andy Bailey, warning coordination meteorologist at Pleasant Hill. Even the people who do the alerting acknowledge that. A dangerous tornado system spared the Kansas City metropolitan area on Tuesday following the National Weather Service's warning of a "tornado emergency… You’d have minutes to react to a flash flood.”. “Nobody knows,” he said. As of 9 p.m., the weather service said on Twitter it canceled a tornado watch that was issued for the Kansas City area. It’s a little-known feature built into newer mobile phones because of a 2006 act of Congress. “So far, we’ve seen a couple of photos and also had a signature on our radar of debris from a tornado that was all in the same location that was south of Odessa,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Jenni Pittman. But Kansas City area residents have mostly been spared the interruptions until recent months, when juicy conditions have stirred tornadic activity and raised the threat of flooding. The warning in the Kansas City area was prompted by a “large and extremely dangerous tornado” located over Edwardsville, Kansas, moving east at 30 mph, the weather service reported. (That figure does not include wireless Amber Alerts, which are issued by law enforcement via the WEA system.). Tornado survivors across the country increasingly credit smartphone alerts for saving their lives. Flash flood warnings, the most common of the weather alerts, also are the most problematic. Radar confirmed tornado south of Odessa, heading east northeast at 40 mph.”. Some low-lying areas around Kansas City face a common risk of flooding, but everyone within a cell tower’s reach will get the alarm. “Or they’ll say, ‘Only warn me if a tornado is going to hit my block,’ which is impossible to do.”. In late 2013, two dozen phones growled at once during a Sunday church service in Washington, Ill., allowing 600 worshippers to file into the basement before a twister ravaged the town. Earlier, parts of Jackson and Cass counties were placed under warnings after the National Weather Service said its radar indicated severe storms “capable of producing” a tornado and straight line wind damage were observed over Grandview and Raymore around 7:50 p.m. “And when my phone goes off at 3 a.m., I’m not real excited myself.”. Kaitlyn Schwers covers breaking news and crime at night for The Kansas City Star. Connect to local news for just $4.99 a month for 12 months. Kansas and Missouri reveal plans. A federal weather alert system has been causing smartphones to squawk, tremble and display abbreviated texts for about three years. Still, a typical smartphone in the region has blared only about three times so far this year, weather service data suggest. The president’s alerts can’t be blocked on WEA-capable devices, though weather warnings and Amber Alerts can be. After yard sign incident, anonymous flier, should KC-area Trump supporters worry? Some measures already have been taken to avoid what May called “overwarning.”. I understand. “We definitely don’t advise that.”. At 8:12 p.m., the weather service put out a warning for parts of Cass, Lafayette, Jackson and Johnson counties in Missouri after the weather service said a severe thunderstorm “capable of producing a tornado” was observed over Lake Lotawana, moving northeast at 40 mph. Since the start of the year, 30 tornado warnings and 72 flash flood warnings have been issued across the station’s 44-county forecast region in Missouri and Kansas. The warnings issued for parts of southern Jackson and northern Cass counties have since expired or have been canceled. But officials are concerned that too many warnings and a lack of public knowledge about how WEA functions may compel countless Americans to turn off the notifications. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. One area it plans to focus on is in Lafayette County, Missouri, south of Odessa. A second tornado warning was issued at 1:55 p.m. for east-central Clay County until 2:30 p.m. A severe thunderstorm was moving north near Missouri City or Excelsior Springs at 10 mph. In Kansas City, Kan., a budget meeting of the Unified Government erupted in emergency-signal clatter on July 6, when the city came under a tornado warning. See a list of all of the Official Weather Advisories, Warnings, and Severe Weather Alerts for Kansas City, MO. Kansas State music graduate Noah Lindquist was getting started in Kansas City theater when COVID-19 hit. Yet they’ve been adding up. With the latter, forecasters today can often narrow alerts to phone users in a twister’s path. “It was doing damage because people were disabling the WEA capability on their phones.”, He said that could be a fatal decision: “It can be annoying to hear flood alerts go off in the Kansas City area. Brett Favre wonders if Chiefs did the right thing by signing Le’Veon Bell, Kansas City’s temps continue to seesaw as cold rains loom in the metro’s future, Rain, big temperature changes in this week’s forecast for Kansas City area, Storms could end Kansas City’s streak of more than 20 days without measurable rainfall, KC skies to be cloudy Tuesday as roller coaster temperatures continue this week, Cool, gray day kicks off work week in Kansas City; rain also possible in coming days, Weather forecast for Kansas City this week shows chances for rain, colder temps. Connecticut authorities credit a text alert to the iPhone of a soccer complex manager for his hustling to safety 29 children who weren’t carrying their cellphones. The federal law that created the alert system even gave the U.S. president a means of sending phone texts in a national emergency. After tornado warnings were sent out across the Kansas City metro due to severe storms Friday night, the National Weather Service says it plans to send a crew to assess the damage. But if you disable that feature and you’re vacationing in Big Thompson Canyon in Colorado? The storm was moving east at 35 to 40 mph, the weather service said. “Other than that, we haven’t had any confirmed reports of tornadoes. “That would be a nice number to know.”. Connect to local news for just $4.99 a month for 12 months. 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