Severe storms were moving out of the Kansas City metro Monday after hammering the area early in the morning and again later in the afternoon, as weather alerts were pared back county by county across Missouri and Kansas.
A severe thunderstorm watch issued at 2:08 p.m. ran through 9 p.m. Monday for Bates, Cass, Cooper, Henry, Howard, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis and Saline counties in Missouri and Linn County in Kansas. Earlier warnings had already been posted for parts of Miami and Linn counties in Kansas and Bates County in Missouri at 1:46 p.m. until 2:15 p.m., then expanded at 2:07 p.m. to include Linn and Miami counties in Kansas and Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson and Lafayette counties in Missouri until 2:45 p.m.
The warnings kept shifting through the afternoon as storms moved on. Linn and Miami counties were removed from one warning at 2:18 p.m., Bates and Cass counties came out of another at 2:46 p.m., and new warnings followed at 3:04 p.m., 3:11 p.m., 3:17 p.m. and 3:40 p.m. for different combinations of counties, with some areas dropped as the line advanced. By 3:59 p.m., a warning still covered southeastern Cooper County until 4:30 p.m., but Pettis and Howard counties had been removed from that alert.
The final watch in the region was canceled at 4:35 p.m. for the Missouri counties under it and Linn County in Kansas, leaving the afternoon round of severe weather to wind down after a day that began with storms before dawn and continued with a second surge later in the day.