Severe weather ripped across our region Tuesday morning, with more storm activity expected today and tonight.

We have numerous reports of the aftereffects of Tuesday morning’s storms:

Online power outage resources from KCP&L have been fluctuating, but just before 10 a.m., the utility’s outage map showed more than 750 customers in St. Joseph without electrical power. Those numbers have changed with each new report of downed power poles or trees taking down power lines.

At U.S. Highway 59 near SW Contrary Creek Road (13531 SW US 59) there were power line arcs and a possible tree fire smoldering. Crews were dispatched shortly after 9 a.m.

One power line was down and another was about to fall with electrical arcs noted in the 200 block of East Dolman Street.

In Union Star, Missouri, at the crossing of US. Highway 169 and Missouri Highway 31, there was a lot of water on the roadway. It was described just before 8 a.m. as about a 25 yard stretch of road where the water was five inches deep or more.

Near Rushville, there were at least two power poles leaning, with guy lines and power lines down on Old Highway 116. Emergency responders in the area also reported a stretch of road along Mud Lake road that was completely washed out and impassable. Power lines were down and poles were leaning in the 15700 block of SW Old Highway Road.

Severe weather blew down some power lines which blocked the roadway along the 10700 block of SE Highway A. That highway has since reopened.

Just before 8am, officials responded to a traffic crash involving several vehicles during the storm in St Joseph. The wreck, which involved multiple vehicles, was reported just south of exit 50 along I-29 in the southbound lanes.