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Severe thunderstorm warnings, watches issued Saturday morning in Kansas City area

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UPDATE, 12:11 P.M. | Around 5,064 Evergy customers and 1,102 BPU customers are experiencing power outages shortly after noon due to Saturday's storm.

UPDATE, 10:25 A.M. | A Severe Thunderstorm Warning has been issued for St. Joseph and Liberty, Missouri, and Atchison, Kansas, until 11:15 a.m.

The Kansas City Chiefs announced training camp practice in St. Joseph was moved indoors Saturday due to weather conditions.

ORIGINAL STORY, 7:30 A.M. | A Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been issued for northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri until 2 p.m. Saturday.

In Kansas, the watch includes Johnson, Atchison, Doniphan, Leavenworth and Wyandotte counties.

Across the border in Missouri, Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte and Ray counties are under a Severe Thunderstorm Watch. Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, Dekalb, Gentry, Harrison, Holt, Nodaway, Worth are also included.

Potential severe thunderstorms could bring frequent lightning, scattered wind gusts of up to 75 miles per hour and ping pong ball-sized hail, per the National Weather Service.

RELATED | Saturday's forecast projects thunderstorms between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.