00:00Kansas City has just set a record nobody wanted.
00:02The metro has logged more severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings
00:06between January and late April than any year on record going back to 1986.
00:12And severe weather season has not even peaked yet.
00:15Meteorologist David Dorris with the National Weather Service
00:19says even if the area received zero more warnings for the rest of the year,
00:23it would still finish mid-pack for an average season.
00:26Two of the most active months, May and June,
00:29are still ahead.
00:30Residents are exhausted.
00:32One family told reporters they were hauling kids,
00:36mattresses and pets into the basement at 4 in the morning just last week.
00:40Forecasters are now warning of warning fatigue.
00:43People stopped taking alerts seriously after too many.
00:47Officials are urging every household across Missouri and Kansas
00:50to keep phone alerts on.
00:51Know your safe room and treat every tornado warning as if it's the real thing.
00:56Because in 2026, statistically, more of them are.
01:00thanks so much for theWAN Africans
01:00in the last week right now.
01:00Jeanne
01:00question to us now.
01:00Be clear.
01:00We know this outfit is too easy to look at you.
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