A thunder and lightning storm that rattled much of the Kansas City area Sunday night and into Monday morning was even more severe for a corner of Johnson County — literally.
The corner was at West 207th Street and South Ridgeview Road in Spring Hill, Kansas, where trees were shorn, twisted and uprooted. The worst of the storm, roiling all night, struck between 4:30 a.m. and 5 a.m. Monday.
The National Weather Service did not list the event as a tornado, although it triggered alarms.
“My weather radio went off. It said there was a tornado warning between 199th and 215th Streets,” said Marla Burvee, who has occupied a ranch home on West 207th Street for 41 years. From bed, she switched on the television to see what was happening…