A tornado watch has been issued for a large portion of the Kansas City area as thunderstorms are expected to fire Wednesday afternoon in warm and very unstable air across the region.
The National Weather Service issued the watch, which is in effect until 9 p.m., for the metropolitan area, including Johnson, Wyandotte and Leavenworth counties in Kansas, and Clay, Platte, Jackson, Lafayette and Ray counties in Missouri.
The watch also includes Atchison and Doniphan counties in Kansas and 25 other counties in northeast, northwest, north-central and central Missouri…