The wind apparently blew down a huge tree in Midtown St Joseph Monday, narrowly missing a house, an RV, a pickup truck and another vehicle.

A neighborhood street south of Frederick Ave. and 17th St. was closed for hours.

The first report came in shortly after 5 a.m., on Kemper Street, just north Clay Street. By 9:30 a.m. Kemper street remained closed. A city crew was helping cut the huge tree into more manageable pieces and clear the roadway.

Wind gusts regularly topped 40 miles per hour Monday morning. St Joseph and large area of Northwest Missouri and northeastern Kansas are under a wind advisory until 6 p.m.