Tornadoes touch down in Kansas and Missouri as lightning and hail hit Kansas City metro ⁠10%

By Emily Younker⁠14% Madeline Fox⁠49%

4/13/2026, 9:19:48 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Framing Effect, and Indoctrination, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 30.5% saturation with 57 hits. Analysis detected 175 faulty-reasoning hits from 187 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 27.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠10% (19,068 of 21,176 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 90.00% of the article peer group.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated. 
Tornadoes hit Ottawa, Kansas, on Monday night as thunderstorms and rain blanketed the metro. 
The storm moved northeast from the Flint Hills, bringing large hail and damaging winds. 
The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado touched down in Franklin County, and KCTV5 reports it hit the ground at 15th and Eisenhower in Ottawa. 
As the storm moved east, taking half-dollar-sized hail with it, the weather agency issued a tornado warning for Cass County, Missouri, just before 9 p.m.. 
The National Weather Service also confirmed a tornado at around 8:35 p.m. near Pleasanton in Linn County. 
It said spotters reported a funnel cloud as the storm moved east into Bates County in Missouri. 
Evergy reported about 12,000 customers were without power as of 10:05 p.m. in east-central Kansas. 
You can check the outage map here. 
People in the region should expect severe weather, including damaging winds, hail and a possible tornado, again Tuesday night into Wednesday. 
Friday afternoon may also bring storm activity. 
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187 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers30%attributed speech130writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageNational Weather Service • 25 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 0.0% coverageNational Weather Service • 17 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 100.0% coverageEvergy • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverage
100%flagged-word coverage
42 attributed words74% of attributed speech42% writer coverage
0%30.0%60.0%Unattributed Quote+46.4 ptsWriter: 13.1%National Weather Service: 59.5%59.5%Indoctrination-16.2 ptsWriter: 16.2%National Weather Service: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-7.7 ptsWriter: 7.7%National Weather Service: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -5.4 ptsWriter: 5.4%National Weather Service: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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