Category Archives: Weather

Emporia Fire is using a fire incident from Monday to remind residents about local fire policy. Fire Capt. Greg Davis says crews were dispatched to the 200 block of Union after a reported structure fir...

The potential for a new dredging method at John Redmond Reservoir is being considered as a way to ensure Wolf Creek's operations for decades to come. It's also being considered as a significant point ...

Outdoor burning is currently strongly discouraged in Lyon County and banned in others this week. Coffey County and the unincorporated areas of Osage County are in burn bans until further notice. In Os...

Flooding is officially ending, but there are still some travel issues after the heavy rainfall this past weekend. Both the Cottonwood River at Emporia and Neosho River at Neosho Rapids went into flood...

As the state's Wildfire Awareness Week draws to a close Friday, the Kansas Forest Service is asking residents to do their part in reducing the risk of unplanned wildland fires. Grass fires are commonp...

Less than a month ago, the KVOE listening area was blanketed in 4-7 inches of snowfall, including around 6 inches of snow across Emporia. Now low levels of drought have returned to parts of the KVOE l...

Record high temperatures are no longer in our forecast -- at least for the foreseeable future. Above-normal temperatures are. Monday's high of 79 degrees broke a 50-year-old record for Emporia. The pr...

Grass fire season is unofficially underway across Kansas, and the state is marking Wildfire Awareness Week this week. The Kansas Forest Service says more than 90 percent of wildfires across the state ...

Now that the snow from late last month is largely gone, expect fire danger to be a weather-related concern in the short term. Fire danger will be very high across the area and most of Kansas, thanks t...

Calendar spring isn't for another six weeks and meteorological spring isn't until March 1, but the National Weather Service Topeka office has set dates and times for its annual storm spotter training ...