Jul 30, 2020

Flash flood watch is in effect into early Friday morning

Posted Jul 30, 2020 5:27 PM

The National Weather Service in Topeka has expanded a Flash Flood Watch through Friday morning to include portions of central Kansas, east   central Kansas, and northeast Kansas, including the following areas, in central Kansas: Dickinson, Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Geary, Lyon, Morris,   Osage, Shawnee, and Wabaunsee and Jefferson.

 Showers and thunderstorms will be scattered across the area today and diminish this evening. Additional rainfall up to two inches with locally higher amounts can be expected. Rainfall of this magnitude falling on saturated ground from heavy rainfall in recent days may lead to flash flooding and rises on creeks and rivers.