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Extreme Heat and Tropical Storm Bertha Impacts

Dangerous heat will expand from the Gulf Coast into the Southern Plains and Desert Southwest through week's end. Additional extreme heat impacting the Pacific Northwest will shift to the northern Plains by the weekend. Tropical Storm Bertha is expected to continue to impact portions of the northern Gulf Coast from the western Florida Panhandle to southeastern Louisiana through tonight. Read More >

A few rounds of thunderstorms passed southeast across north central, northeast, and east central Kansas in the evening hours of July 7, 2014.  Many of these storms produced severe weather, primarily in the form of strong winds, but some large hail also fell in north central Kansas. 

 

Radar imagery during the severe weather:

 

Map of severe weather reports - click for interactive view:

 

Images of wind damage:

In Fostoria, via Chris Trudo:

 

In Lyndon, via Douglas Watson:

 

Wakarusa Drive in Lawrence, via Arin Peters: