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The KSHB 41 Weather team is monitoring impending severe weather in the Kansas City area, which could bring large hail, damaging wind gusts, and tornadoes Sunday afternoon into Monday morning.
Two more tornadoes were confirmed to have hit the Kansas City metro during Thursday's storms.
A severe thunderstorm warning is in effect in the Kansas City area, bringing winds as strong as 70 mph and two inch hail.
MORRIS COUNTY—Spring storms brought rain, large hail, gusty winds and tornadoes to portions of Kansas on Thursday. National Weather survey teams found EF-1 tornado damage that occurred in southern Morris county near Lake Kahola. Three additional EF-0 tornadoes were observed across Lyon and Wabaunsee counties.
The Chase County Sheriff’s Office said there was heavy damage to cabins on the northeast side of the lake, in Morris County.
The warning was issued for Johnson and Miami counties.
A local hotel was nearly destroyed, its roof ripped away, leaving beds and furniture exposed to the open sky. Elsewhere in town, power lines were down and other businesses lay in ruins.
More than 30 million Americans are once again in the path of dangerous severe weather with large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes all possible in the threat zone.
An evening of wild weather April 23 brought Kansas at least two tornado touchdowns and a report of softball-sized hail.
More severe weather is expected in the central United States on Saturday after multiple tornadoes roared through the region earlier in the week, including a violent EF-4 twister that caused significant damage and multiple injuries in Oklahoma — the start of a dangerous multiday stretch of severe thunderstorms for the region.