This year’s severe weather season in the Kansas City region is one for the record books.
The National Weather Service confirmed that 39 tornadoes have touched down so far in the Pleasant Hill forecast office’s jurisdiction, which includes 37 counties across northern and western Missouri and seven counties in extreme northeastern Kansas.
That breaks the previous record of 33 tornadoes set in 1967, according to data dating back to 1951 from the National Severe Weather Archive Display website. The next highest was 31 in both 2003 and 2004…