Holy shit, I'm glad I'm not the only one. I'm in Independence and I woke up at my normal time to a tornado warning at 1:30am notification on my phone. I thought no way in hell did I sleep through that. I was very, very wrong.
Yes I was up watching. I had been watching it roll in from the northwest and knew it had been tornado warned a couple of times about an hour and a half previously, but it had seemed to calm down. I was watching [www.weather.gov](https://www.weather.gov) map for any reds (counties with tornado warnings) and there hadn't been anything for a long time. The severe-thunderstorm warnings all said "60 mph winds and quarter-sized hail." That is the threshold for severe storms and won't do much damage, except maybe dent your car and take down some medium-sized tree limbs. When it intensified, it did so immediately, so no one had very much warning.
The people saying "why wasn't there a tornado watch" (I am sorry I'm being such a know-it-all on this but it's my cake day and I'm a weather enthusiast...not the most knowledgeable one by any means but the other ones are welcome to chime in) anyway.... Gary Lezak always says any severe thunderstorm can suddenly produce a tornado. Meteorologists when predicting severe storms usually say "We have to watch..." and sure enough they were all saying "We have to watch at 2 a.m." They don't usually issue tornado watches for squall lines, but when one gets going and is particularly strong, sometimes they will tornado-warn the whole squall line because they don't know exactly where one might spin up.
https://www.foxweather.com/learn/squall-line-severe-weather-damaging-winds-tornadoes-dangerous
If you're using Notify JoCo or anything like that, they don't issue the phone alerts for warnings county wide. They'll issue it for the exact area that the National Weather Service dictates the warning to be. The warnings are then sent out to anyone who has set up their address and are in the immediately affected area! If what I heard through the grape vine is correct they sent notifications to about 15,000 people in the actual warning area through texts, emails, and phonecalls (ended up being 40-50k notifications since most people have multiple ways they've requested those alerts).
It's pretty phenomenal that in like 5 minutes of being told something was occurring that they managed to get that info put out there.
Another important note is that sirens should not be your first indicator of severe weather or to take shelter. They're not designed to be heard in homes, and are specific tools to alert people outdoors to immediately seek shelter. That's why most of the messaging on preparedness really emphasizes multiple alert tools for yourself. Things like NotifyJoCo (for here) and Weather radios are two pretty easy ones.
File me under the “didn’t hear it’ll category. Keep in mind I had earplugs in so I can sleep through my baby’s noise machine. These kids are going to literally be the death of me lol.
My mom's been nagging me to get one for years, and I kept insisting that with multiple cell phones in our home, we don't need a whole separate device...today, I buy one.
See we had sirens go off near us last night but neither my phone or my wife’s phone sent out any alert. I just happened to be awake and that’s the only reason we knew it happened.
Yeah, reminds me I need to turn ours back on. Every year it reaches a point where it going off every 15 minutes is just too much for me it seems like and I decide I'd rather just take the chance. But it's good to have on during peak weather that can fuck up your house season.
Most radios you can select what it takes to trigger the alarm tone. Mine the factory preset has it squawking for severe thunderstorm warnings and at the monthly tests and so on; I have it set to only squawk for a tornado warning and just blink the display lights for others. /u/utahphil [commented below how to do this,](https://www.reddit.com/r/kansascity/comments/v7o8jt/waking_up_in_lenexa_this_morning_after_no_tornado/ibm5pk3/) ymmv for different radio models of course
Alternatively, I have the Tornado app on my phone by Red Cross. It's a great app and it woke me up last night. It went off at least 5 minutes before our local sirens did. I also have Storm Shield and I'm disappointed because it never went off at all and even after refreshing it never even showed that a warning had been issued.
[First result on Amazon.](https://www.amazon.com/Midland-WR120B-WR120EZ-Certified-Trilingual/dp/B00176T9OY/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1DDCI33QVUQMV&keywords=weather+alert+radio&qid=1654697070&sprefix=weather+alert+radio%2Caps%2C163&sr=8-3)
I have three of these, and they're easily one of the best weather radios you can buy (and Midland is a KC company!) but I wish it was better.
Primarily, they seem to eat batteries despite being plugged in its whole life. I've tried at least 5 different brands of batteries, rechargeable and not, and doesn't seem to matter. I see the 'low battery' screen after only a few months. It's not just a 'hey you should put new batteries in me for the sake of being prepared' notice either, because some especially shitty rechargeables gave me the notice after a week.
A [hand crank radio](https://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Radio%EF%BC%8C4000mAh-Solar-Portable-Flashlight-Lamp%EF%BC%8CCell/dp/B083TLZN7G/ref=psdc_667846011_t3_B09LYPR786) is a great back-up to one of these. They make them with small solar panels, and with ports to charge your phone. Having been through a winter with no electricity for 2 weeks, phone charging can be a big issue.
I prefer this one: [https://www.amazon.com/Sangean-CL-100-Certified-Table-Top-Stations/dp/B003QHXZM4/ref=asc\_df\_B003QHXZM4/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309743312319&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18364733019645501701&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9023225&hvtargid=pla-569369109969&psc=1](https://www.amazon.com/Sangean-CL-100-Certified-Table-Top-Stations/dp/B003QHXZM4/ref=asc_df_B003QHXZM4/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309743312319&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18364733019645501701&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9023225&hvtargid=pla-569369109969&psc=1)
Seems to have better power to pull in stations.
Amen to this! Edited to add: I like this model: https://www.amazon.com/Sangean-CL-100-Certified-Table-Top-Stations/dp/B003QHXZM4/ref=asc\_df\_B003QHXZM4/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309743312319&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18364733019645501701&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9023225&hvtargid=pla-569369109969&psc=1
Have two. Neither went off (phones did, thankfully). I really hate there’s no way to test them. Why they don’t sound off during the monthly test is beyond me.
Maybe yours are set to the wrong county codes?
Mine have a weekly test twice on Wednesdays, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. (except they are not doing it today)
[https://kake.images.worldnow.com/library/36e82b1e-c506-44a0-b5fd-1d1ca5475a61.pdf](https://kake.images.worldnow.com/library/36e82b1e-c506-44a0-b5fd-1d1ca5475a61.pdf)
https://www.weather.gov/nwr/county\_coverage?State=MO
Yup. My radio went off, and only after I'd woken up did I hear the faint siren. By the time I got my shoes on and grabbed my cat to go to my apartment building's basement the high winds had died down. Seemed less than one minute from the radio going and then everything being over.
My wife's phone got an alert, but mine -- a few feet away -- did not. Strange. Sirens were going off at 1:25 AM or so, but by the time we were able to orient ourselves, the sirens were off and the tornado warning had passed.
Same. We are in Blue Springs & heard sirens right at that time, too. It was at LEAST 10 minutes before we got the cell phone alert, and only my husband got that. I think we were still getting weather until about 2. But we only got rain, wind & small hail, thankfully.
On 95th and Quivira - Plenty of damage indicating more than straight-line windows... Sirens went off, but we did not notice them until the storm was near Raytown.
Could have been a lot worse I suppose.
I was gonna say there were definitely sirens, my phone definitely didn’t go off though
My mom called me and told me to get to the lower level of my apartment though, otherwise I’d have slept through it
I’m in Hyde Park and slept through it with my windows open (and no notification history when I woke up this morning). Am I just that hard of a sleeper? Or was it not that bad in midtown?
I'm near UMKC and I don't think it was that bad in Midtown. My tulip tree, which tends to lose big limbs in squall lines, lost a couple of medium-sized (maybe 3") limbs, but not the 6" limbs it lost in 2000 and 2013. I rate this one a bow-saw event or boy-scout saw event rather than a chainsaw event.
I definitely slept through it. However doing this morning's dog walk, it was obvious a tornado precursor went through based on the amount of damage we saw (own house fine thanksfully).
I got a new phone last week. I THOUGHT I had updated all the friggin' settings, but I missed allowing my weather app to bust through Do Not Disturb at night. Slept right through it in NKC. Going to go get a weather radio, I guess.
Upvoted. Keep up the good work. Getting some pushback in this sub on the weather radio idea. My post got deleted so I'm just supporting the "weather radio" comments. People aren't supposed to depend on sirens to wake them up at night, indoors.
0145 is not a good time for me to get out of bed. I woke to the phone alert, heard the sirens, took my chances, told the dog to hush and burrowed deeper under the covers.
I have an iPhone and got the one National Weather Service alert. My boyfriend and I have the CARROT Weather App and it blared repeatedly on all of our Apple devices in the house. (Even when we have our devices in Do Not Disturb mode.)
My wife got a phone warning, but my daughter and I didn't. Heard the sirens a few minutes later, but from what I understand the tornado had already passed at that point.
We're 98th and Wornall area. I got weather alerts at the exact same time the wind kicked in from the south. Did hear sirens, I'm guessing that's when the tornado was coming down 95th St/Bannister. Lots of fallen limbs but no property damage. Lost electricity shortly afterwards.
when the tstorm ran theu lawrence it seemed like unusually loud wind and i did think possibly tornadies, but then it was over. No warnings came thru the phone
I live in north OP. Got a phone alert, then the sirens went off, then got an email from the county with the exact details of the tornado and what direction it was going. It also said how long to stay in shelter which is nice because I never know how long to wait.
If your phone didn't go off, you probably want to check your settings and/or that your device and carrier are WEA capable.
https://www.weather.gov/wrn/wea
If you turned off amber alerts, you may have turned off your tornado/weather alerts too
Yeah, we're in OP near Corporate Woods and the rain and wind woke us up - before the sirens even went off. When they did, they were so faint we almost didn't realize what was happening...
And as for phone alerts, we both had the message on screen but neither of us received any type of audio cue or vibration.
Funny how Amber Alerts are loud enough to wake the dead on both our phones (which I'm ok with) but we get nothing for tornado warnings. :|
That storm was crazy, it was a nice day too, I was worried because I was at a sleepover in oak grove and it said a tornado coming from lee's summit was towards oak grove, ended up okay and didn't go to sleep till 3:30 am
Weird winds in Liberty, MO and sirens blaring and the NOAA radio going off like it was a bomb raid.
Nothing moved off our back deck and less than 1" of rain.
All of that was nothing compared to 16 hours of power loss due to a tree branch hitting a power line in our nearby community.
Alternate title: Waking up this morning and looking for storm damage pics on r/kansascity.
Or no power
Not alternate title, Much better title!
Same! Waking up after being in the "red zone" and sleeping through it....
At least you slept I guess.
Apparently our whole family slept right through it.
Holy shit, I'm glad I'm not the only one. I'm in Independence and I woke up at my normal time to a tornado warning at 1:30am notification on my phone. I thought no way in hell did I sleep through that. I was very, very wrong.
One street over had a shit ton of down trees and damage. My street had a few buckets strewn around. I slept through it all
I thought I was the only one. I didn't hear any sirens nor did my phone go off. I'm in Mission ks.
There were tornado sirens in Lenexa for sure, around 120 am just after the storm passed through lol. No phone alerts though
I live by JCCC and there were definitely sirens going off around 1:30 AM but no phone alerts.
I got phone alerts and sirens in north OP.
Same…live by JCCC. Heard the sirens but the phone stayed silent.
That storm turned into a danger over the course of a few minutes. According to Lezak
Yes I was up watching. I had been watching it roll in from the northwest and knew it had been tornado warned a couple of times about an hour and a half previously, but it had seemed to calm down. I was watching [www.weather.gov](https://www.weather.gov) map for any reds (counties with tornado warnings) and there hadn't been anything for a long time. The severe-thunderstorm warnings all said "60 mph winds and quarter-sized hail." That is the threshold for severe storms and won't do much damage, except maybe dent your car and take down some medium-sized tree limbs. When it intensified, it did so immediately, so no one had very much warning. The people saying "why wasn't there a tornado watch" (I am sorry I'm being such a know-it-all on this but it's my cake day and I'm a weather enthusiast...not the most knowledgeable one by any means but the other ones are welcome to chime in) anyway.... Gary Lezak always says any severe thunderstorm can suddenly produce a tornado. Meteorologists when predicting severe storms usually say "We have to watch..." and sure enough they were all saying "We have to watch at 2 a.m." They don't usually issue tornado watches for squall lines, but when one gets going and is particularly strong, sometimes they will tornado-warn the whole squall line because they don't know exactly where one might spin up. https://www.foxweather.com/learn/squall-line-severe-weather-damaging-winds-tornadoes-dangerous
They were but they were really quiet. My sister thought it was a train. I only knew before hand because UMKC called me until I woke up!
Shawnee had sirens. No alert on my phone, but my daughter’s did … after the warning was over.
That must have been what I was faintly hearing in western Shawnee
If you're using Notify JoCo or anything like that, they don't issue the phone alerts for warnings county wide. They'll issue it for the exact area that the National Weather Service dictates the warning to be. The warnings are then sent out to anyone who has set up their address and are in the immediately affected area! If what I heard through the grape vine is correct they sent notifications to about 15,000 people in the actual warning area through texts, emails, and phonecalls (ended up being 40-50k notifications since most people have multiple ways they've requested those alerts). It's pretty phenomenal that in like 5 minutes of being told something was occurring that they managed to get that info put out there. Another important note is that sirens should not be your first indicator of severe weather or to take shelter. They're not designed to be heard in homes, and are specific tools to alert people outdoors to immediately seek shelter. That's why most of the messaging on preparedness really emphasizes multiple alert tools for yourself. Things like NotifyJoCo (for here) and Weather radios are two pretty easy ones.
West Lenexa and sirens woke me up but co-worker over by lake Lenexa slept through it.
Prairie village here. I apparently slept through all of it. I wondered why all my animals were on the bed with me this morning.
We're at 79th and pflumm area and they were going off around 1:30. But yes, no phone alerts.
Hello fellow 79th and Pflumm resident! Our neighborhood is about 50/50 split on hearing any sirens last night!
File me under the “didn’t hear it’ll category. Keep in mind I had earplugs in so I can sleep through my baby’s noise machine. These kids are going to literally be the death of me lol.
I also sleep with earplugs but I heard a siren in Olathe because I live just a block away from one 😅
Also checking in from 79th and Pflumm! Our family slept through the sirens as well.
We dont remember hearing anything
Independence right near I-70 here, slept like a baby, no phone alerts, no sirens that I heard. Woke up this morning and was very confused.
Friend in Independence heard the siren then saw a river flowing down his street
Independence here, Main st. We had sirens around 2ish. Our street turned into a river and there was a hell of a lotta wind.
Same on the east end of Independence
Sirens are meant to be heard if one is outside, every home should invest in a weather broadcast alert system for night tornado
As obnoxious as ours can be, I'm very happy to have it in these situations. It went off before the phone alert came through.
My mom's been nagging me to get one for years, and I kept insisting that with multiple cell phones in our home, we don't need a whole separate device...today, I buy one.
See we had sirens go off near us last night but neither my phone or my wife’s phone sent out any alert. I just happened to be awake and that’s the only reason we knew it happened.
It's crazy how many people didn't get texts.
Apparently some people have to enable alerts after 10pm, so definitely worth checking your settings if yours didn't go off.
Mine did, but that's good to know!
oh I didn't think of that factor. Thanks.
My husband got a text, I didn't. Same phone plan, same account, same phone.
Yeah, reminds me I need to turn ours back on. Every year it reaches a point where it going off every 15 minutes is just too much for me it seems like and I decide I'd rather just take the chance. But it's good to have on during peak weather that can fuck up your house season.
Most radios you can select what it takes to trigger the alarm tone. Mine the factory preset has it squawking for severe thunderstorm warnings and at the monthly tests and so on; I have it set to only squawk for a tornado warning and just blink the display lights for others. /u/utahphil [commented below how to do this,](https://www.reddit.com/r/kansascity/comments/v7o8jt/waking_up_in_lenexa_this_morning_after_no_tornado/ibm5pk3/) ymmv for different radio models of course
Mine went off well before the phone alerted too. I was already in the basement with a glass of wine before the phone alerted.
Alternatively, I have the Tornado app on my phone by Red Cross. It's a great app and it woke me up last night. It went off at least 5 minutes before our local sirens did. I also have Storm Shield and I'm disappointed because it never went off at all and even after refreshing it never even showed that a warning had been issued.
Thank you! I’m going to look into this instead of buying an expensive radio!
Can you provide a link for one?
[First result on Amazon.](https://www.amazon.com/Midland-WR120B-WR120EZ-Certified-Trilingual/dp/B00176T9OY/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1DDCI33QVUQMV&keywords=weather+alert+radio&qid=1654697070&sprefix=weather+alert+radio%2Caps%2C163&sr=8-3)
I have three of these, and they're easily one of the best weather radios you can buy (and Midland is a KC company!) but I wish it was better. Primarily, they seem to eat batteries despite being plugged in its whole life. I've tried at least 5 different brands of batteries, rechargeable and not, and doesn't seem to matter. I see the 'low battery' screen after only a few months. It's not just a 'hey you should put new batteries in me for the sake of being prepared' notice either, because some especially shitty rechargeables gave me the notice after a week.
A [hand crank radio](https://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Radio%EF%BC%8C4000mAh-Solar-Portable-Flashlight-Lamp%EF%BC%8CCell/dp/B083TLZN7G/ref=psdc_667846011_t3_B09LYPR786) is a great back-up to one of these. They make them with small solar panels, and with ports to charge your phone. Having been through a winter with no electricity for 2 weeks, phone charging can be a big issue.
[Here's how to program it for only tornado warnings.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI8GZaSsToc)
I miss the real voice on NOAA weather radio KID77.
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-emergency-weather-radio/
I prefer this one: [https://www.amazon.com/Sangean-CL-100-Certified-Table-Top-Stations/dp/B003QHXZM4/ref=asc\_df\_B003QHXZM4/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309743312319&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18364733019645501701&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9023225&hvtargid=pla-569369109969&psc=1](https://www.amazon.com/Sangean-CL-100-Certified-Table-Top-Stations/dp/B003QHXZM4/ref=asc_df_B003QHXZM4/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309743312319&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18364733019645501701&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9023225&hvtargid=pla-569369109969&psc=1) Seems to have better power to pull in stations.
Amen to this! Edited to add: I like this model: https://www.amazon.com/Sangean-CL-100-Certified-Table-Top-Stations/dp/B003QHXZM4/ref=asc\_df\_B003QHXZM4/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309743312319&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18364733019645501701&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9023225&hvtargid=pla-569369109969&psc=1
Have two. Neither went off (phones did, thankfully). I really hate there’s no way to test them. Why they don’t sound off during the monthly test is beyond me.
Maybe yours are set to the wrong county codes? Mine have a weekly test twice on Wednesdays, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. (except they are not doing it today) [https://kake.images.worldnow.com/library/36e82b1e-c506-44a0-b5fd-1d1ca5475a61.pdf](https://kake.images.worldnow.com/library/36e82b1e-c506-44a0-b5fd-1d1ca5475a61.pdf) https://www.weather.gov/nwr/county\_coverage?State=MO
i have a weather radio, there was no tornado warning alert on my weather radio
What system would you recommend? Totally new to the area and new to tornadoes…
Yup. My radio went off, and only after I'd woken up did I hear the faint siren. By the time I got my shoes on and grabbed my cat to go to my apartment building's basement the high winds had died down. Seemed less than one minute from the radio going and then everything being over.
It was gnarly as hell in Gladstone for a bit.
My wife's phone got an alert, but mine -- a few feet away -- did not. Strange. Sirens were going off at 1:25 AM or so, but by the time we were able to orient ourselves, the sirens were off and the tornado warning had passed.
Same. We are in Blue Springs & heard sirens right at that time, too. It was at LEAST 10 minutes before we got the cell phone alert, and only my husband got that. I think we were still getting weather until about 2. But we only got rain, wind & small hail, thankfully.
On 95th and Quivira - Plenty of damage indicating more than straight-line windows... Sirens went off, but we did not notice them until the storm was near Raytown. Could have been a lot worse I suppose.
I was gonna say there were definitely sirens, my phone definitely didn’t go off though My mom called me and told me to get to the lower level of my apartment though, otherwise I’d have slept through it
I’m in Hyde Park and slept through it with my windows open (and no notification history when I woke up this morning). Am I just that hard of a sleeper? Or was it not that bad in midtown?
I'm near UMKC and I don't think it was that bad in Midtown. My tulip tree, which tends to lose big limbs in squall lines, lost a couple of medium-sized (maybe 3") limbs, but not the 6" limbs it lost in 2000 and 2013. I rate this one a bow-saw event or boy-scout saw event rather than a chainsaw event.
I definitely slept through it. However doing this morning's dog walk, it was obvious a tornado precursor went through based on the amount of damage we saw (own house fine thanksfully).
The road was blocked by a fallen tree on 95th West of state line. My detour took me through streets with branches all around.
I'm on 40 Hwy and Lee's Summit Rd. I got a text alert 10 minutes before the sirens went off.
I got a new phone last week. I THOUGHT I had updated all the friggin' settings, but I missed allowing my weather app to bust through Do Not Disturb at night. Slept right through it in NKC. Going to go get a weather radio, I guess.
Glad you made it through safe!
Tornado sirens are for people outside. Get a real weather radio, not an app!
Upvoted. Keep up the good work. Getting some pushback in this sub on the weather radio idea. My post got deleted so I'm just supporting the "weather radio" comments. People aren't supposed to depend on sirens to wake them up at night, indoors.
NOAA / NWS basic radio. Emergency generator? Try Harbor Freight
0145 is not a good time for me to get out of bed. I woke to the phone alert, heard the sirens, took my chances, told the dog to hush and burrowed deeper under the covers.
Slept through it all and my window was open
I live in Merriam near Shawnee mission parkway and antioch didn’t hear a thing but it’s all anyone at work is talking about
I have an iPhone and got the one National Weather Service alert. My boyfriend and I have the CARROT Weather App and it blared repeatedly on all of our Apple devices in the house. (Even when we have our devices in Do Not Disturb mode.)
Never heard of CARROT app, thanks!
My wife got a phone warning, but my daughter and I didn't. Heard the sirens a few minutes later, but from what I understand the tornado had already passed at that point.
No phone warnings in Blue Springs either, we were lucky my husband is a light sleeper during storms.
We are in Blue Springs, my husband got a phone alert, I didn't.
Right? Lucky I didn’t wake up a bed just sitting amongst the rubble of a house.
I'm in Clay Coounty. It got pretty hairy for a minute!
Good stuff. Thanks OP for all your old ass rotten trees you refuse to cull.
We're 98th and Wornall area. I got weather alerts at the exact same time the wind kicked in from the south. Did hear sirens, I'm guessing that's when the tornado was coming down 95th St/Bannister. Lots of fallen limbs but no property damage. Lost electricity shortly afterwards.
In this thread: "sIrEnS aRe FoR pEoPlE oUtSidE!"
Well, I mean, technically they are.
What is supposed to be wrong with that statement?
Tornado sirens are for people outside. Get a real weather radio, not an app!
when the tstorm ran theu lawrence it seemed like unusually loud wind and i did think possibly tornadies, but then it was over. No warnings came thru the phone
Here in Lawrence all we got was rain, it was quiet here
Probably it’s cos its the first Wednesday of the month when they test the sirens
they’re skipping the test today due to last night’s tornado
Absolutely ridiculous. We had no warning yet we continue to have monthly siren tests and THEY WERENT EVEN USED??
I live in north OP. Got a phone alert, then the sirens went off, then got an email from the county with the exact details of the tornado and what direction it was going. It also said how long to stay in shelter which is nice because I never know how long to wait.
You can watch a radar app that shows its progress.
Unfortunately, I don't get a cell phone signal in my basement so can't check anything on my phone while I'm down there.
I like nearish to Oak Park Mall, kinda near 87th & I-35 in OP, couldn’t hear anything last night
No sirens or phone alerts here either (KCK/Armourdale). I definitely would have heard the siren inside as it is literally in my yard
Nice username
Sirens woke me up in Shawnee but no one got phone notifications
Sirens were all through Lee’s Summit, Raytown and Unity Village. One tornado confirmed in the area.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one!
Didn't get a phone alert that I saw in LS either.
OMG. my sister just told me about it this morning 😭😭 heard NOTHING.
Lucky
ME TOOOO
If your phone didn't go off, you probably want to check your settings and/or that your device and carrier are WEA capable. https://www.weather.gov/wrn/wea If you turned off amber alerts, you may have turned off your tornado/weather alerts too
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I had abdomen/thorax anatomy exam in the morning. Lost a lot of sleep with the siren blasting next to my window.
Yeah, we're in OP near Corporate Woods and the rain and wind woke us up - before the sirens even went off. When they did, they were so faint we almost didn't realize what was happening... And as for phone alerts, we both had the message on screen but neither of us received any type of audio cue or vibration. Funny how Amber Alerts are loud enough to wake the dead on both our phones (which I'm ok with) but we get nothing for tornado warnings. :|
Woke up at 3, opened Twitter, saw the mayhem. No text warning, no sirens, didn’t hear a damn thing over here in North Plaza!
Olathe here, south of Garmin, no phone alerts and I didn't hear the sirens either
That storm was crazy, it was a nice day too, I was worried because I was at a sleepover in oak grove and it said a tornado coming from lee's summit was towards oak grove, ended up okay and didn't go to sleep till 3:30 am
Raymore didn’t have any sirens or notifications. Everyone slept through it here.
Weird winds in Liberty, MO and sirens blaring and the NOAA radio going off like it was a bomb raid. Nothing moved off our back deck and less than 1" of rain. All of that was nothing compared to 16 hours of power loss due to a tree branch hitting a power line in our nearby community.
Sirens went off in Olathe around 1:30.
I live in Mission Farms and slept through all of it
I forgot it was going to rain so my bedroom windows were open and I'm only 1/4 mile from the siren, woke me right up