Brief heavy rain and small hail were widespread as part of the second round of storm activity across the KVOE listening area in a 12-hour period.
Isolated storms brought warnings to Greenwood and Coffey counties Tuesday evening. No severe weather was reported. A line of storms followed after 3 am Wednesday, bringing heavy rain and small hail to Emporia, Olpe and Reading.
Rain totals:
*KVOE studios: 0.50 inches
*Emporia Municipal Airport: 0.54 inches
*10th and Weaver: 0.65 inches
*1100 block Constitution: 0.65 inches
*Deerbrook Addition: 0.50 inches
*Allen: 0.30 inches
*3 miles north of Bazaar: 0.32 inches
*Between Hartford and Olpe: 0.90 inches
*Eureka Milliken Airport: 0.76 inches
*6 miles north of Gridley: 0.90 inches
*Lamont: 0.85-0.90 inches
*Lebo: 0.90 inches
*6 miles west of Madison: 1.25 inches
*Neosho Rapids: 1.10 inches
*5 miles southwest of Olpe: 0.90 inches
*Reading: 0.75-1 inch
*Thorndale: 0.70 inches
*Toledo: 0.30 inches
TV-13 meteorologist Doug Meyers says this rainfall sets up more rain by late this week.
Audio PlayerPower outages have been few in number, with a handful of Evergy and 4 Rivers customers offline in Emporia and 4 Rivers also having a few customers offline in Osage and Wabaunsee counties. Evergy had an extensive outage stretching from Harveyville and Eskridge northeast to Topeka, causing over 400 customers to lose power.
If you have storm reports or rain totals from the Tuesday night-Wednesday morning activity, call KVOE at 620-342-1400, message the Bluestem Farm and Ranch text line at 620-342-5863 or email kvoe@kvoe.com.
