Healthy rainfall totals have been duly noted across the KVOE listening area Monday into Tuesday.
The KVOE studios are at 1.45 inches as of 6:30 am, while the Emporia Municipal Airport is at 1.66 inches. Other totals:
*10th and Weaver: 0.95 inches
*800 block Lawrence: 1.05 inches
*1100 block Constitution: 1.1 inches
*Coronado Avenue: 1.26 inches
*South and Sylvan: 1.20 inches
*3.5 miles west of Emporia Golf Course: 2.130 inch
*3 miles east of Emporia Municipal Airport: 1.65 inches
*7 miles southwest of Emporia: 1.50 inches
*Allen: 0.80 inches
*Americus: 2 inches
*1.5 miles northeast Bethel Corner: 1.24 inches
*Cottonwood Falls: 2.25 inches
*Eureka Milliken Airport: 0.23 inches
*Between Hartford and Olpe: 0.70 inches
*Kansas Highway 99 at Lyon-Greenwood county line: 1 inch
*Lamont: 0.60 inches
*2 miles north of Lebo: 0.75 inches
*5 miles southwest of Olpe: 0.70 inches
*Reading: 0.75 inches
*700 block Road 200: 1.91 inches
*Saffordville: 3.50 inches
*2 miles east of Thorndale: 0.70 inches
*Toledo: 2 inches
The rest of the week should be dry after a chance of showers and storms ends by mid-morning Tuesday. High temperatures will increase from the upper 60s Tuesday to the mid-80s by Sunday. Our next chance of rain is a slight chance of showers early next week.
If you have rain totals, message the KVOE Bluestem Farm and Ranch Supply text line at 620-342-5863.
Monday’s rain had an apparent impact on travel as Emporia Fire says two people were taken to hospitals after separate wrecks on the Kansas Turnpike in southwest Lyon County on Monday.
The Kansas Highway Patrol crash log says the first crash happened just before 2:20 pm at mile marker 118 southbound, or nine miles southwest of Emporia. Troopers say 23-year-old Elizabeth Conrad of Wichita was in the inside lane when her vehicle hydroplaned and hit the center barrier wall.
Conrad was taken to Newman Regional Health with suspected minor injuries. She was wearing her seatbelt at the time of the wreck.
Emporia Fire returned to the Turnpike at mile marker 117 shortly before 4:30 pm. At least one person was reported taken to Newman Regional Health afterward. Details are pending.
