KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Saturday marks 21 years since one of the strongest tornadoes to evet hit the Kansas City metro took place.
Winds more than 200 mph ripped through houses, apartments and businesses in communities such as Kansas City, Kansas, and Riverside, Parkville and Liberty, Missouri.
Other tornadoes were reported near Leavenworth and Paola in Kansas, and Harrisonville and Warrensburg in Missouri.
A series of four tornadoes were reported across the Kansas City area, from the supercell thunderstorm which tracked east-northeast across the western and northern sections of the metropolitan area.
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The first of these tornadoes touched down in southern Leavenworth County just before 4 p.m. north of Linwood and south of the Kansas Turnpike, near 198th Street and Woodend Road.
Video showed the F2 tornado crossed the Kansas Turnpike east of the Eastern Toll Booth, and then proceeded northeast to where it lifted south of Basehor. The total track length was six miles, with a width approaching 200 yards at times.