Good morning,
There were 91 reports on Thursday of severe weather across the entire NBC Action Weather Plus viewing area, including a possible tornado in St. Joe. The Weather Service will do a damage assesment survey today and determine if it was a tornado or a microburst. Most of the severe weather reports were related to hail or high winds. Check out this picture from Kelli Bernd who took this shot of a menacing thunderstorm rolling into Olathe around 7:00pm.
Prior to that additional thunderstorms produced numerous hail shafts. Ross Kimbrough sent this one to us from the 56th & Metcalf area.
On top of the severe weather, there were several reports of heavy rain. Nearly two inches of rain in some spots, south and east of Kansas City. In Southwest Missouri, streets are still closed in one town in Barry County. Here is a picture of Monett, Missouri.
As Gary said in his blog, the weather should dry out for a period here next week. Hard hit areas with rising waters should see those waters recede through late next week.
Have a great weekend,
Brett