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Kansas City weather: Pop-up afternoon thunderstorms possible Friday

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The story across its frozen snapshot generations (each shares ≥ half of this snapshot's articles). articles · sources · squares = generation births, sized by importance (outlined = open that snapshot; filled = this one) · baseline band = intervals the story was live · ticks below = each generation's tone.
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Public Discourse · Bluesky · this story as of 8d ago
7 distinct posts / 48h, matching Kansas 7
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9d ago Special Weather Statement issued July 16 at 4:00PM CDT by NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO At 359 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Holden, moving east at 10 mph. HAZA… -3.0
9d ago Special Weather Statement issued July 16 at 1:55PM CDT by NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO At 154 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Fontana, or near La Cygne, moving no… -4.0
9d ago Special Weather Statement issued July 16 at 1:55PM CDT by NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO At 154 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Fontana, or near La Cygne, moving no… -4.0
9d ago 142.7 million people from Kansas to Maine under extreme heat warnings as 152 warm-weather records may fall across the eastern US, the Weather Prediction Center says. #ExtremeHeat #Weather -6.0
9d ago #Drought news July 16, 2026: Rainfall led to localized improvements in E. #Colorado, W. #Kansas and W. #Nebraska, mostly dry weather west of the Continental Divide coyotegulch.blog/2026/07/16/d... +2.0
9d ago Literally not 10 minutes ago I said to my wife that it’s been the last 5 years. There’s a lot of stuff we get that never happened before. We never got tornado either. That was a Kansas thing. Now … -4.0
10d ago My next book, #Heliruna, which comes out in 65 days, literally begins with the words 'it was a dark and stormy night...' The entire book is set into motion by the events of one single thunderstorm … -1.5

Articles in Story

Tier Title Category Source Feeling SentimentSentiment Score (-5 to +5)
LLM-assessed emotional tone of coverage.

-5 = extremely negative/alarming
0 = neutral/factual
+5 = extremely positive/hopeful

The colored bar shows position on the scale. Emotion badge uses Plutchik's 8 primary emotions: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, anticipation.
T3 Weather In Kansas City: Storms Return With 1/5 Severe Risk weather_severe_storm el-balad.com tense, watchful, uneasy
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fear
T3 Kansas City weather: Pop-up afternoon thunderstorms possible Friday weather_forecast kmbc.com brief, expectant, cautious
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anticipation