Extreme heat warning with possible thunderstorms in region


Audio|Source: Avilla, Mo NOAA Weather Radio WXJ61
05:17
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Here is your National Weather Service forecast for extreme southeast Kansas as well as southwest Missouri, including the cities of Jotland, Pittsburgh, Columbus, and surrounding communities. Tonight, partly cloudy this evening, then becoming mostly cloudy. Lowes in the mid-70s. South winds 5 to 10 miles an hour. Monday, mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid-nighties. Southwest winds 5 to 10 miles an hour. Heat index values up to 108. Monday night, mostly clear. Tumid with lows in the mid-70s. South winds 5 to 10 miles an hour. Tuesday, sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southwest winds around 5 miles an hour. Tuesday night, mostly clear. Tumid will flows in the mid-70s. South winds around 5 miles an hour. Wednesday, sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Wednesday night and Thursday, partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Hot. Lows in the lower 70s. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40%. Thursday night through Saturday, mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid-60s. Highs in the Lower 80s. Saturday night and Sunday, partly cloudy, hot, lows in the mid-60s, highs in the mid-80s. You are listening to NOAA Weather Radio Station WXJ61 A Villa, the voice of the National Weather Service, broadcasting from a tower provided by Ozark Electric Cooperative, on a frequency of 162.425 megahertz. WXJ61 provides the people of Southwest Missouri in extreme southeast Kansas with the latest watches, warnings and forecasts from the National Weather Service in Springfield, Missouri. If you have problems with reception of this broadcast, please contact the radio manufacturer or call us at 4178638028. If you have questions or comments concerning this broadcast, please contact the National Weather Service by email it. Contact.SGF at NIA.G-G-OV, or write to the National Weather Service, 5805, West Highway, WSpringfield, Missouri, 65802. For even more weather information from your National Weather Service, check out the following internet websites, www.weather.g.gov, forward slash SGF. The current time is 2.45 p.m., central daylight time. At 2 p.m. and Joplin, skies were mostly sunny. The temperature was 94, the dew.73, and the relative humidity was 50. The heat indexed this hour was 103. Winds were south at 14 miles an hour, gusting to 26. The pressure was 30.07 inches and falling. Around the region, at Chinute, it was sunny with a temperature of 95. It was mostly sunny, with a temperature of 91 at Springfield, and 94 at Parsons. At Tulsa, it was partly sunny, with a temperature of 94. Elsewhere across the Midwest, skies ranged from mostly sunny to partly sunny. It was 91 at Fayetteville, 90 at Lake of the Ozarks, 91 at Kansas City, and 92 at Harrison. Now here is the hazardous weather outlook for portions of the Missouri Ozarks and the extreme southeast Kansas. For today and tonight, weather hazards expected, limited lightning risk, elevated excess of heat risk. Limited excessive rainfall risk discussion. Dangerous heat continues today with afternoon and early evening heat index values between 100 to 108 degrees. Isolated showers and thunderstorms will be possible 20 to 30% across the area this afternoon into early this evening with the better chances over central and south central Missouri. A few stronger storms will be possible, which may be capable of wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour. frequent lightning and torrential rainfall. The heavy rain may lead to very localized flooding risk if training of storms occurs. And now the extended outlook for the period Monday through Saturday. The dangerous heat will continue through at least Tuesday and potentially into Wednesday. Highs in the middle 90s and heat index values from 100 to 109 are expected each day. A heat advisory remains in effect through 7 p.m. Tuesday. There is a 20 to 40% chance for thunderstorms at times during the middle to end of the week as a cold front moves into the region. Spotter information statement, spotter activation will not be needed through tonight.
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