KVOE listeners got much-needed rainfall Monday.
The KVOE studios received 0.80 inches of rainfall. Other totals:
*Emporia Municipal Airport: 0.66 inches
*1100 block Constitution: 0.85 inches
*10th and Weaver: 1.02 inches
*Sixth and East: 0.90 inches
*South and Sylvan: 1 inch
*Allen: 1 inch
*Americus: 1 inch
*Gridley: 1.25 inches
*Between Hartford and Olpe: 1 inch
*Lebo: 1.4 inches
*Neosho Rapids: 1.1 inches
*Olpe: 1.25 inch
*Reading: 1.25 inches
*Roads 120 and M: 2.1 inches
It’s the first measurable rainfall since Oct. 13, when the KVOE studios received 0.30 inches of rainfall. It’s also the most significant rainfall since Sept. 23, when KVOE reported 0.60 inches of rain. The last 1-inch rainfall at KVOE was Aug. 29.
How the rainfall affects the ongoing drought will be determined by the US Drought Monitor, with its latest map set to come out Thursday morning. Most of the KVOE listening area is currently in severe drought, including all or parts of Lyon, Chase, Coffey, Morris and Wabaunsee counties. Greenwood County, meanwhile, ranges from severe drought near Madison to exceptional drought just south of Eureka.
Showers are possible Thursday.
Wet conditions contributed to a pair of injury crashes Monday, one northeast of Emporia and one southwest of Emporia:
*The Kansas Highway Patrol says 36-year-old Shawnta Smith of Wichita was northbound and driving her SUV too fast for the weather conditions when she wrecked shortly after 9 am. The SUV spun, hit the center barrier wall, went off the highway and through a fence. Smith was brought to Newman Regional Health with suspected serious injuries.
*Troopers say a two-vehicle crash at mile marker 100 southbound, near the Matfield Green service exit and 27 miles southwest of Emporia, happened after a car driven by 40-year-old Cesary Lopez of Kansas City, Missouri, hydroplaned. Lopez’ car hit the center barrier wall and was hit by a car driven by 74-year-old Daryl Meyer of Fort Worth, Texas. A passenger in the Lopez car, 40-year-old Bertha Navarro of Kansas City, Kansas, went to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita for suspected minor injuries.
9 am-3 pm Monday: Much-needed rainfall continues; Wichita woman hurt in crash northeast of Emporia
Welcome and much-needed rainfall has come to the KVOE listening area.
Rain started at the KVOE studios shortly after sunrise, with 0.6 inches of rain recorded by noon. Other totals:
*Emporia Municipal Airport: 0.66 inches
*Olpe: 1 inch
Wet conditions contributed to an injury crash northeast of Emporia on Monday. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 36-year-old Shawnta Smith of Wichita was northbound and driving her SUV too fast for the weather conditions when she wrecked shortly after 9 am. The SUV spun, hit the center barrier wall, went off the highway and through a fence. Smith was brought to Newman Regional Health with suspected serious injuries.
How the rainfall affects the ongoing drought will be determined by the US Drought Monitor, with its latest map set to come out Thursday morning. Most of the KVOE listening area is currently in severe drought, including all or parts of Lyon, Chase, Coffey, Morris and Wabaunsee counties. Greenwood County, meanwhile, ranges from severe drought near Madison to exceptional drought just south of Eureka.
