Tornado sirens have pierced the night skies of Kansas City on Saturday night, interrupting Scotland's first World Cup football match in 28 years for fans. Wails heard across the city heralded a chilling warning to locals and World Cup tourists alike: duck for cover, with dangerous and wild weather imminent. Fans that may have hoped to spend their Saturday at the FIFA Fan Festival in Kansas City had their plans cut short, with the venue closed by 5pm after warnings of severe of winds of up to 80 mph coming through from America's weather bureau. The Kansas broadcast of the Scotland game was also cut off due to the major storm warning.

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