Douglas County is under a heat advisory, as well as a flood watch again Tuesday following widespread flooding on Monday.
The area could see a heat index of up to 107° from noon to 8 p.m. Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tuesday’s flood watch will be in effect from 5 p.m. through 7 a.m. Wednesday. There’s a 90% chance of precipitation Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning, as of the 12:30 p.m. forecast.
“An axis of heavy rainfall with thunderstorms looks to set up over the watch area late this afternoon into tonight. Much of this area has received heavy rain recently and could be prone to flooding with additional rounds of heavy rain,” according to NWS. “Thunderstorms with torrential rainfall may lead to amounts of 1 to 3 inches, although these totals are not expected to be widespread.”
On Monday, Lawrence-area residents reported rainfall totals ranging between roughly 3 to 6 inches. The rain gauge at the airport recorded about 2.5 inches of rain — a new record for July 1.
“Severe weather will be possible each day through the 4th of July,” according to NWS. “Uncertainty remains in exact locations and coverage of storms on Wednesday.”
Severe weather resources
National Weather Service local office (Topeka):
• Find the latest weather forecast info and severe weather advisories for the Lawrence area at this link.
• In the event of rapidly changing severe weather, such as tornadoes, the NWS posts frequent updates on Twitter, @NWSTopeka. You do not need a Twitter account to see tweets from NWS.
• NWS is also on Facebook, facebook.com/NWSTopeka.
• Call 785-234-2592 to hear the forecast.
Douglas County Emergency Management:
• Follow @DgCoEM on Twitter or Douglas County, KS- Emergency Management on Facebook, facebook.com/dgcoem.
• Sign up to receive emergency alerts at dgcoks.org/emalerts.
• Find lots of tips on severe weather and other emergency preparedness on DgCoEM’s website at douglascountyks.org/emergency-management.
• Report storm damage (for non-emergencies only, and after storm danger has passed) by calling the nonemergency dispatch line at 785-843-0250 or 785-832-7509.
Evergy outages:
• Check the status of power outages on the Evergy outage map, outagemap.evergy.com.
• Report a power outage at evergy.com/report-outage, or call 800-544-4857.
• For down powerlines, call 911.
City of Lawrence snow info:
• The city has snow information and a map at lawrenceks.org/snow that shows information about road conditions and snow plow locations. The city typically begins snow and ice control for residential roadways when 2 or more inches of snowfall or icing occurs.
Air quality:
• Check the current air quality index in Lawrence and elsewhere through AirNow, airnow.gov.
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