1st photo appears to be taken from a position near railroad track, looking southwest. The tank in the foreground would be the tank on the east side of the burning tank.
2nd and 3rd photos appear to be taken from a position hovering over the river, looking northwest. They show another large tank in the background northwest of the burning tank, apparently built since the google satellite photo was taken.
Wind at that time was out of the west-southwest, taking the smoke east-northeast.
Later around sundown winds turned southerly, carrying the smoke north.
Yesterday’s storms were several powerful cells along a west-to-east front from a low pressure system centered west of Kansas City. Today that low pressure center has consolidated with a larger low centered over Wichita Kansas. The front has lost it’s punch and become stationary.
This is a typical early-summer storm pattern for Kansas City. The lows spinning off these fronts sweeping over Kansas City produce more powerful cells near their center, hence the tornados in Oklahoma and Kansas.
Kansas City is on the northwest “border” of the flow of warm humid air up from the gulf, a weather pattern that dominates the south. The west and northwest edge of this humidity flow is a general line from Dallas extending north east up through Tulsa and on up through Kansas City.
Along this west and northwest line the warmer humid air clashes with cooler drier air sweeping down from Canada, the dominant weather pattern of the great plains.
Strong low pressure cells develop along and west of that line when the warmer air starts rising up through the cooler air. The earth’s rotaion causes the air to spiral counter-clockwise as it rises (the gyro effect), resulting in strong tornado-producing storm cells.
The action is more intense in Oklahoma where the humid air is several degrees warmer, hence the strongest tornados being in Oklahoma.