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I said that sometimes, not always, God uses the forces of nature for HIS PURPOSES.

We live in a fallen world in which God’s creation groans to see the full redemption of this Earth...

18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. (Romans 8:18-25)

So, natural disasters happen - from weather, from earthquakes....part of our fallen world.

Yet in God’s mercy He did ordain that laws of nature would be in place.

But as the author of the laws of nature and as the Creator of His earth and its living things and of each one of us, He has the authority to intervene according to his purposes as He sees fit.

Does God send storms? Does He send war? Does He send earthquakes? Does He send floods?

He is not capricious. He is HOLY, RIGHTEOUS, PURE, GOOD, LOVE, LIGHT, TRUTH, CREATOR, DELIVERER, OMNIPOTENT,OMNISCIENT,OMNIPRESENT, ALMIGHTY...

There is no question that God takes these “bad things” like storms, natural disasters, wars, droughts, disease, flood...and brings in His mercy and grace and HIS PLAN and PURPOSES....as He sees fit (which means according to HIs Holiness, His Righteousness, His Love, His Mercy, His Grace, and His Wisdom.)

some examples....

The Flood - in which many were killed but Noah and his family was spared because Noah heard and obeyed God.

God’s Word says this flood came because:
Genesis 6:5-14...

5 The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. 7 So the LORD said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

9 This is the account of Noah.
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.

Obviously God, the Creator, used the works of nature in judgement against people, plants, and animals....because of what had become corrupt and full of violence.....

God did that. He is sovereign God.

I don’t know what was the purpose of the storm in that Kansas city....and I do not know if God was using that storm for any of His ultimate purposes.....but I do know He in His SOVEREIGN will allowed it to occur.

And I praise and thank Him that in His mercy He has left us an ordered,lawful, natural world in which disasters like this do not happen every day in every location.

And I look forward to the day when creation is fully redeemed as the Sons of God come into their full redemption of their bodies....the hope which we who believe in Him have been promised.

Sorry for the long reply. CAn discuss further here or go on another thread...