Rainy weather closes Fan Fest, but Kansas City's Netherlands-Tunisia World Cup match plays on 23%
By Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga0%
6/25/2026, 6:48:11 PM
Keywords: World Cup Kc, World Cup, Arrowhead Stadium, Soccer, Weather, National Weather Service, Storms
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Despite the gloomy forecast, the Netherlands-Tunisia match kicked off as scheduled at 6 p.m.
Thursday at Arrowhead Stadium, with the Dutch national team beating Tunisia 3-1.
Rain fell for nearly the entirety of the match.
Forecasts call for heavy rain, flash flooding and thunderstorms.
The National Weather Service says rainfall and thunderstorms will mainly be after 4 p.m.
“I’m concerned about a large area of rain with embedded lightning spreading across the Kansas City area between 4 and 8 PM, along with the potential for ‘rogue’ or pop-up thunderstorms to develop before and after that time period,” KMBC’s Nick Bender said in a Facebook post.
Shortly before 4 p.m., fans already at the stadium were being asked to take shelter due to inclement weather, but that directive was later lifted.
Melissa Kreller is a meteorologist for the National Weather Service.
She said storms are expected in the Kansas City metro later in the day, and Kansas City is under a flash flood warning until 7 a.m.
Friday.
“We're looking at precipitation chances with these storms anywhere from 2 to 3 inches total,” Kreller said.
“But there should be some localized heavy rainfall.
We could see anywhere around 5 inches with these stronger storms.”
Kreller said the most severe storms should be further south, in areas like Harrisonville, Butler and Clinton, but "there is a potential you might see some stronger to severe thunderstorms across and along that I-70 corridor, including the Kansas City metro area.
World Cup matches will be paused or delayed if there is lightning in an 8-mile radius of the stadium.
The game can only restart if it’s been 30 minutes since the last lightning strike.
According to Reuters, the France-Iraq match in Philadelphia on Monday had an almost two-hour delay because of thunderstorms and lightning.
The weather closed the FIFA Fan Festival, on the grounds of the National WWI Museum and Memorial, for the rest of the day.
"The safety of the public, staff, volunteers and entertainers remains our top priority," KC2026 officials said on social media.
"ConnectKC26 bus service will continue to operate unless weather conditions make it unsafe to operate."
The Netherlands’ Oranje Fanwalk in Kansas City started earlier than originally scheduled Thursday morning to beat the rain.
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