Wind advisory issued for Lawrence area

The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for the Lawrence area, warning that gusts reaching up to 45 mph will occur Wednesday afternoon.

The advisory was issued for north central northeast and east central Kansas.

Because of the high winds, the weather service has placed its fire danger index in the “extreme” category across north central Kansas.

Wednesday night’s forecast call for some clouds to arrive later, with the temperature dropping down to 26 by early Thursday morning.

Thursday afternoon’s high will be 50.


For more on this story, see the 6Weather reports at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Sunflower Broadband’s channel 6.