A fallen tree smashed two parked cars but injured no one tonight in the 1100 block of Indiana as a line of strong storms moves through Lawrence.
With heavy rain, the storm dumped an inch on the Lawrence Municipal Airport between 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m, according the National Weather Service. And rain continues overnight.
Weather service meteorologist Darrel Smith said he expected the Lawrence area to receive as much as two inches after the storm moves through.
The heavy rainfall caused the weather service in Topeka to issue its second flash flood warning for the area in less than one week.
By 9:30 p.m., police had already blocked the Second Street underpass in North Lawrence to warn drivers from the flood-prone area, which became a trouble spot that stranded motorists last Saturday.
At the scene in the 1100 block of Indiana, Kansas University junior Anne Weltmer tried to exit her sport utility vehicle after parking it. Then, a large tree smashed her windshield and another car, forcing her to exit the back door of the vehicle, she said.
"It all happened really fast," Weltmer said.
She was uninjured, and the incident did not require a fire and medical response.
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