Tag: weather

The Neosho rises nearly to the top of the Marsh arch bridge at Humboldt; the park itself was under water.Just .40 inches of rain fell Wednesday, bringing the month’s total to 13.14 inches. The Neosho…

With the recent onslaught of rain, local farmers are hopeful its short-lived. Shawn Geffert, whose farms include much of the envied rich river bottom soil, is not too distraught: “I’d rather have it wet than…

Iolan Shayne Shaughnessy set up his own version of an early flood warning system. About a half block from his home at the intersection of South Washington and Rock, Shaughnessy placed a small orange flag. …

Long before tornado warnings were issued Monday afternoon in Coffeyville and Pittsburg, Allen County Emergency Management Coordinator Jason Trego was participating in a conference call with the National Weather Service out of the Wichita region.…

PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — Much of Kansas remains under flood warnings or watches as heavy rains are expected to push streams and rivers out of their banks. The National Weather Service says more than 3.5…

PAOLA, Kan. (AP) — The National Weather Service says a tornado near the eastern Kansas town of Paola was a small one, but it was still enough to cause damage. The Kansas City Star reports…

Stop us if you’ve heard this before… Rainy weather wreaked havoc on the spring sports scene, especially in Iola, where home baseball, softball and track events were washed away before they got started. The only…

A storm system known as a “bomb cyclone” slowly churned through the U.S. interior today for the second time in a month, unleashing a blizzard in parts of the Midwest while creating hazardous fire conditions…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Ferocious winds caused damage across much of Kansas, while a blizzard closed roads in western sections of the state. Westbound lanes of Interstate 70 and several other highways in western Kansas…

Kansas Department of Transportation engineer Darrin Petrowsky appeared before county commissioners on a rainy Tuesday morning to tell them what they probably already knew. The unforgiving weather of the past few weeks has delayed completion…