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LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. (KMBC) — Thunder and lightning put on quite a show in the Kansas City area overnight, and now some parts of the metro are cleaning up storm damage.
Neighbors in an unincorporated part of Cass County along Jeter Road, roughly between Lee’s Summit and Raymore, told reporter Martin Augustine that they love their neighborhood in part because of the tree-lined streets.
Those streets are now active with the noise of chainsaws after thunderstorms overnight twisted and downed tree limbs, creating a mess in the area.
In Raymore’s Creekmoor neighborhood, several boats and boat docks were damaged or flipped. The nearby QuikTrip distribution center also sustained damage.
First Alert Meteorologist Nick Bender said that while most of our overnight storms did not produce severe weather, there was a path from Stillwell, Kansas, to near Belton and Pleasant Hill in Missouri that saw wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour. The National Weather Service has received a number of reports of tree damage from that line.
Evergy’s outage map shows more than 14,000 customers in the dark as of 8:30 a.m. Thursday, with numbers from the storms as high as 21,000 at one point.
While this round of showers and thunderstorms is expected to dissipate midmorning, we’ll likely see another round after 10 p.m. Thursday and into Friday morning.
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