Category Archives: Weather

Current alerts from the National Weather Service: *Severe thunderstorm watch: Chase County until 6 pm. Main hazards are 70 mph wind and 1.75-inch hail

Strong to severe thunderstorms remain possible areawide through midnight, and the National Weather Service has extended an existing severe thunderstorm watch to include part of the KVOE listening area...

Slight to moderate chances of showers and thunderstorms begin developing areawide by mid-afternoon Friday. There is at least some risk of severe weather in that time frame. The National Weather Servic...

The heavy rainfall much of the area had Tuesday morning had some impact on the US Drought Monitor map, but not as much as one might think. Abnormally dry conditions had moved across most of the KVOE l...

Lyon County commissioners approved purchases designed to help replace a collapsed bridge. Commissioners approved a better than $200,000 bid from Oden Enterprises for structural steel beams, as well as...

Overnight thunderstorms left hundreds of utility customers offline Wednesday night into Thursday morning. At one time, more than 450 customers were affected by the outages in and around Emporia which ...

Most of the KVOE listening area is now in a severe thunderstorm watch. Lyon, Chase, Coffey, Morris, Osage and Wabaunsee counties are officially under a watch until 1 am Thursday. The Storm Prediction ...

Lyon County Highway Department crews made good progress on restoring traffic flow on several gravel roads Tuesday. The Highway Department reopened the following *Road M from 190 to 197 *Road M-7 from ...

Issues have been resolved for the quartet of radio transmitters that went offline for the National Weather Service Topeka coverage area Wednesday. The Halls Summit transmitter, which serves Lyon, Coff...

Moderate and occasionally heavy rain has fallen on much of the KVOE listening area. Showers and embedded storms began affecting the area before 4 am. Totals so far: *KVOE studios: 1.05 inches *Emporia...