Strong winds, snow bladder – Joco schools start late Wednesday

Johnson County's schools will start late Wednesday morning, as the worst effects of a winter storm run out of the Kansas City area overnight.

From late Tuesday, the region was beaten with Gale-Force winds, and the forecasters say that the strong winds are expected to continue all day long.

The Kansas City Field Office of the National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill, Missouri, reported that up to 2 inch snow had fallen until early Wednesday morning, although the last measurements with light snow were expected at least 9 a.m.

In the Shawnee Mission School District, Briarwood Elementary was in Prairie Village before dawn without power on Wednesday. School officials said a crew from Utility Evergy was on site and tried to restore power.

Johnson County's largest public school districts, including Blue Valley, Olathe, Shawneee Mission and USD 232 in de Soto, announced on Wednesday with two hours of delayed. This means that most students would only go to school around 10 a.m.

From 6:30 a.m., Evergys online failed card reported about 3,800 customers of Johnson County without electricity, of more than 1,000 of those in Overland Park, about 900 in Olathe and another 400 in Prairie Village.

The National Weather Service classified a snowstorm warning on a winter weather consultation on Wednesday morning, which will remain in force until 9 a.m.

Melissa Kreller, a meteorologist of the National Weather Service, said that a strong wind warning was also in force until 6 p.m. She said that you can still expect persistent winds of 35 to 40 miles per hour all Wednesday, with gusts of up to 50 miles per hour still possible.

Wind gusts overnight in Johnson County stood over 60 miles per hour in some areas.

Here is a look at some of our most measured gusts of wind overnight:

Jarbolo: 70 miles per hour
St. Joseph: 66 miles per hour
Pleasant hill: 65 miles per hour
Olathe/Gardner: 63 miles per hour
Kansas City International: 62 miles per hour
Cameron: 58 miles per hour
Lees summit: 53 miles per hour
Kirksville: 53 miles per hour
Chillicothe: 52 miles per hour

– NWS Kansas City (@nwskansascity) March 5, 2025

The online college Road Map of the Ministry of Transport at Kansas showed most of the area motorways, some of which are covered with snow.

A route of the Interstate 435 from State Line Road in Leawood to the Nall Avenue in Overland Park was closed early Wednesday after a truck reported a low -hanging power line that lowered several supply rods.

On both sides of the highway, several crashes resulted from the dilapidated power line. At 3:30 a.m., Johnson County MedAct Hospital had taken one of the accidents to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

At 5:30 a.m., the alleys were reopened in the west of the I-435. The police officers from Overland Park stated that closures were expected on the eastern side, which would take at least 6 a.m.

In the Overland Park, firefighting teams reacted to a house fire that began after a power line in the back yard of a single -family house.

Firefighters said that an older woman who lives in the house was woken up by her fire alarm shortly after midnight and could get out of the house without injuries.