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Kansas city tornado- NWS: 4 tornadoes touched down in our area during storms
The menacing funnel cloud packed peak winds of miles per hour and cut a nearly mile long path of destruction that measured a mile at its widest point, the weather service reported. While it caused widespread damage to homes and businesses, there were no fatalities. Some 85 million Americans were under the threat of severe weather, according to the NWS.
Tuesday marked the 12th consecutive day in which eight or more tornadoes were reported throughout the country, according to the NWS. And it wasn't just the heartland that was left in shambles. A powerful EF1 funnel cloud slammed Atlantic County, New Jersey, Tuesday night, downing trees and power lines, leaving residents with frayed nerves and rattled windows.
Parts of Pennsylvania were also hit by an EF2 tornado packing winds of at least miles per hour. The NWS issued a "tornado emergency" alert for parts of eastern Kansas on Tuesday night as dangerous weather touched down in the area.
Brian Christenson, the mayor of Linwood, Kansas, a suburb of Lawrence, said on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Wednesday that while multiple residents in his city of nearly people lost homes, no one was killed and everyone was accounted for. The way it moves and picks and chooses, it's incredible.
Christenson said he and the bulk of people in his town heeded the early-warning sirens and alerts and sought shelter before the funnel cloud reached them. But even those who rode out the storm in basements walked away with their lives -- but not much else. Everything is gone. Police in Lawrence, the home of the University of Kansas, said a massive tornado left large trees, power lines and debris along the streets, making some major roads impassable.
Eighteen people suffered mostly minor injuries in the town and adjacent communities, officials said. Guns in America. Just after 10 p. Wednesday morning. Wednesday, storms had approached the Kansas City, prompting a Severe Thunderstorm Warning near Tonganoxie and heading east into the metro.
At a. The weather service reported a radar-confirmed tornado over Prairie Village at a. It was that warning that prompted an Emergency Alert notification to be issued for smartphone users in certain areas around roughly a. In my safe place in the basement right now. By a. The tornado warning remained in effect for Jackson County through a. Radar confirmed a tornado near Leawood moving east. As of a. The Tornado Warning was allowed to expire at 2 a.
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