Much-needed rainfall came to the KVOE listening area Wednesday.
Rain totals as of 8 pm:
*KVOE studios: 0.80 inches
*Emporia Municipal Airport: 0.67 inches
*Country Club Heights: 0.90 inches
*Deerbrook Addition: 0.80 inches
*Seventh and Market: 1 inch
*Ninth and Burns: 1 inch
*10th and Arundel: 0.85 inches
*10th and Weaver: 1 inch
*18th and Briarcliff: 1 inch
*South and Sylvan: 1 inch
*South Weaver: 0.75 inches
*1100 block Constitution: 0.95 inches
*Willow Lane: 1 inch
*Americus: 0.50 inches
*Americus Main Street: 1.6 inches
*1 mile northwest of Council Grove: 1.53 inches
*Between Hartford and Olpe: 0.55 inches
*Madison: 0.49 inches
*4 miles north of Madison: 1.3 inches
*Neosho Rapids: 0.80 inches
*Olpe: 0.30 inches
*Reading: 0.50 inches
*1 mile north of Saffordville: 1 inch
*Thorndale: 1 inch
*Wilsey: 3.21 inches
The heavy rainfall led to one injury crash near Emporia shortly before 8 am. Lyon County Deputy Jeff Rodriguez says 32-year-old Lydia Terison of Toronto, Canada, left the Kansas Turnpike near mile marker 128, or just north of the Emporia tollgate, before her car hit a fence and several trees. She went by ambulance to Newman Regional Health for non-life-threatening injuries.
Storms, especially those that rumbled across the area between 6-7:30 am, caused a number of power outages areawide. Emporia has had as many as 110 Evergy customers offline, with scattered small-scale outages along Kansas Highway 99 from Olpe south through Greenwood County. The hardest-hit area has been between US Highway 54 and the Greenwood-Elk county line, with over 1,000 Evergy customers offline at the peak of the outage activity. That number dropped to under 350 as of 8:30 am.
Stay with KVOE, KVOE.com and KVOE social media for updates. If you have storm reports or rainfall totals with this round of activity, message the Bluestem Farm and Ranch text line at 620-342-5863.
7:45 am Wednesday: Rainfall underway areawide
Heavy rain and isolated severe weather are possible with storms moving across the KVOE listening area Wednesday morning.
Rainfall totals as of 7:30 am have already been widely varied:
*KVOE studios: 0.30 inches
*Emporia Municipal Airport: 0.27 inches
*1 mile northwest of Council Grove: 1.53 inches
*Olpe: 0.30 inches
*Wilsey: 3.21 inches
Besides heavy downpours, the stronger storms could bring winds up to 70 mph and hail to the size of quarters or an inch in diameter, meaning a marginal risk of severe weather for all area counties.
Storms should clear the area by late morning or early afternoon, leading to highs in the low 80s. Slight to moderate storm chances return Friday night and linger through Monday afternoon.
Stay with KVOE, KVOE.com and KVOE social media for updates. If you have storm reports or rainfall totals with this round of activity, message the Bluestem Farm and Ranch text line at 620-342-5863.
