Tailgate Thursday: Local coverage of Tuesday’s Kansas City tornadoes

Tailgate Thursday: Local coverage of Tuesday’s Kansas City tornadoes
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This week’s Kansas City news should remind us that we live in an area where extreme weather events are always possible. We were fortunate that the tornadoes that crossed over our city on Tuesday — one of them aimed directly at Arrowhead Stadium — either didn’t touch down or were weak enough to cause only minor damage. It could have been much worse.

Once they heard the sirens, many Kansas Citians immediately tuned into local television stations — all of which interrupted their normal programming to cover the ongoing story. Which station(s) did you watch? What did you think of the coverage? Which station consistently does the best job in these circumstances?

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