The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch that's in effect until midnight for Johnson, Wyandotte, Leavenworth, Jefferson and Douglas counties.Check back to our site for additional weather updates.
Sirens sounding againLeavenworth County Emergency Management will sound the county's outdoor warning sirens again at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, as part of a statewide tornado drill that takes place during Kansas Severe Weather Awareness Week.Regular monthly tests take place at 11 a.m. on the first ...
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for Douglas, Franklin and Jefferson counties. It is in effect until 1 a.m. Wednesday.Shawnee County is also included in the tornado watch. In all, 15 counties across the state are under a tornado watch.
Although it may have disappointed area children, Kent Heskett was happy Tonganoxie didn’t have a white Christmas.The memory of the Christmas blizzard of 2009 is still fresh enough on the Tonganoxie public works supervisor’s mind to make him appreciate the current mild weather.Two years ago, ...
Here are updates on road closures in northeast Kansas, including one in Lansing, as of late Monday morning:• Kansas Highway 5 in Leavenworth County is now closed from Eisenhower Road to Mary Street in Lansing because of high waters from the Missouri River on both lanes of the road as of 11:09 ...
The prospect of unhealthy levels of smog Tuesday has prompted officials to issue an orange Ozone Alert for the entire metropolitan Kansas City area.The alert was issued Monday by the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) Air Quality Program.This alert indicates that an unhealthy level of ...
The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat watch for the area. The watch goes into effect Friday afternoon, and is slated to last until Monday evening.Temperatures during the weekend heat watch could reach as high as 100 degrees. Factoring in humidity, heat indices will be ...
Anna Mary Landauer remembers that during the hot, dry summer of 1936, calves on adjoining property found Stranger Creek to be no barrier.“The creek was so low, the neighbor who lived across the creek, his calves would come across the creek and suck our cows dry because they didn’t have ...
Kansas Highway 5 in Leavenworth County is closed from Eisenhower Road to Mary Street in the city of Lansing due to high waters from the Missouri River on the roadway. The Kansas Department of Transportation said the roadway was expected to be closed for several more days. Officials closed the ...
Stay informedFor more on the flooding, please click on the Missouri River Flood Control page or sign up to receive emergency alerts via email.As communities along the river experience unprecedented flows out of the Missouri River main stem reservoirs, the Army Corps of Engineers in the Omaha ...
