... Excessive heat warning remains in effect from 1 PM this afternoon to 9 PM CDT Monday...
An excessive heat warning remains in effect from 1 PM this afternoon to 9 PM CDT Monday.
A nearly stationary front draped along the Kansas Oklahoma border is forecast to lift slowly north as a warm front today. This will enable temperatures to reach 100 to 105 across south-central and southeast Kansas both today and Monday. With high humidities taken into account... this would result in heat indices reaching around 110 degrees in the warned areas by Monday afternoon.
Precautionary/preparedness actions...
An excessive heat warning means that a prolonged period of dangerously hot temperatures will occur. The combination of hot temperatures and high humidity will create a dangerous situation where heat illnesses are likely. Drink plenty of fluids and stay in an air-conditioned room. Stay out of the sun and check up on relatives and neighbors. Watch your pets! Make sure they too are kept in a cool environment and have plenty of water. Never leave pets or children unattended in a vehicle for any duration!
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Public Information Statement
Statement as of 6:01 am CDT on July 12, 2009
... On this date in weather history...
In 1951... the Kansas River Valley flood reached a Pinnacle when the Kansas... Neosho... Verdigris and marais des cygnes rivers inundated most of northeast and east-central Kansas as well as most of northwest and west-central Missouri.Primed by record-setting rainfalls that had swamped most of the area in may and June... the flooding was escalated by staggering 8 to 16 inch rainfalls that overwhelmed much of the region from July 9th to the 12th. The Kansas river crested 4 to 6 feet Above All prior records from Manhattan to Bonner Springs... and crests on the marais des cygnes... Verdigris and Neosho rivers crested some 9 feet Above All previous records. Some 150 communities were devastated... especially Topeka and Kansas City. The worst flood on record for the Kansas river and it\'s tributaries claimed 28 lives and caused around $1 billion damage in 1951 dollars.