BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
847 PM CDT Mon May 18 2026
The National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Wyandotte County in northeastern Kansas...
Leavenworth County in northeastern Kansas...
Johnson County in east central Kansas...
Southeastern Platte County in west central Missouri...
* Until 945 PM CDT.
* At 847 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from Easton to near Globe, moving east at 60 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Automated weather station.
IMPACT...Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to
mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
* Locations impacted include...
Overland Park, Olathe, Shawnee, Lenexa, Leavenworth, Leawood,
Prairie Village, Gardner, Lansing, Merriam, Mission, Bonner
Springs, De Soto, Parkville, Spring Hill, Tonganoxie, Platte City,
Basehor, Edwardsville, and Fairway.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 70 in Missouri near mile marker 0.
Interstate 70 in Kansas between mile markers 410 and 423.
Interstate 35 in Kansas between mile markers 202 and 234.
Interstate 29 between mile markers 3 and 18.
Interstate 635 between mile markers 0 and 12.
Interstate 435 between mile markers 0 and 39, and between mile
markers 76 and 83.
Kansas Turnpike between mile markers 206 and 226.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 100 AM CDT for northeastern
and east central Kansas...and west central Missouri.
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LAT...LON 3935 9518 3936 9461 3914 9459 3912 9461
3874 9461 3874 9506 3898 9506 3899 9507
3899 9508 3898 9509 3896 9508 3898 9516
3896 9517 3897 9519
TIME...MOT...LOC 0147Z 257DEG 51KT 3937 9512 3879 9546
THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
WIND THREAT...OBSERVED
MAX WIND GUST...70 MPH
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