Two tornadoes confirmed in Kansas City area Tuesday night
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
The National Weather Service confirmed a pair of tornadoes hit eastern Kansas City through Independence on Tuesday.
The first tornado’s EF rating is unknown, but the second has been rated as an EF-1. The first tornado lasted two minutes and traveled a quarter-mile, while the EF-1 lasted nine minutes, went 3.75 miles with peak winds at 100 miles per hour with a width of 50 yards, according to a social media post from the NWS.
More than 2,600 Independence Power and Light customers experienced an outage, most of which have been restored, according to a social media post from the City of Independence. Crews faced broken poles, downed lines and lots of fallen trees, the post reads.