Kansas Radar
Track storms with NOAA's National Weather Service radar from Topeka.
Precipitation Totals for Lawrence Municipal Airport (February 29)
May to date: 2.72"
2012 to date: 2.94"
Weather links
- Kansas radar: Composite of radar for Kansas from the National Weather Service in Topeka.
- Kansas Road Conditions: Kansas Department of Transportation provides an interactive, live look at road conditions across the state.
- NOAA Storm Prediction Center: Interactive information from the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center.
- National Severe Storms Laboratory: "The National Severe Storms Laboratory is one of NOAA's internationally known research laboratories, leading the way in investigations of all aspects of severe weather."
- U.S. watches: Current Convective Watches.
- Mesoscale discussions: Current Mesoscale Discussions.
- Topeka NOAA weather radio: Live streaming audio, from WeatherUnderground, of the local Topeka-area weather radio station.
- Northeast Kansas area forecast discussion: The National Weather Service's daily weather forecast, with discussion of what has occurred and what is likely to come.
Weather news
- Bishop Seabury receives FEMA grant to build safe room
- May 16, 2012
- A visit by a Bishop Seabury Academy trustee to tornado-ravaged Joplin, Mo., has prompted the school to look into constructing a room built so soundly it could withstand a missile attack.
- Severe storms cause power outages
- 11:00 p.m., May 7, 2012 Updated 09:33 p.m.
- More than 550 people in Douglas County lost electricity during Sunday’s thunderstorms. The thunderstorms emerged in Douglas County about 4 p.m. Relentless heavy rain, quarter-size hail and winds as high as 25 mph buffeted the area for a five-hour stretch. The severity ebbed about 9 p.m., when the National Weather Service canceled the thunderstorm watch for Douglas County.
- Douglas County under severe thunderstorm watch
- 04:00 p.m., May 6, 2012 Updated 04:06 p.m.
- The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for Douglas County. It expires at 11 p.m.
- Douglas County under flood advisory until 9 p.m.
- May 6, 2012
- The National Weather Service placed Douglas County under an urban and small stream flood advisory. The advisory lasts until 9 p.m.
- The very hungry caterpillars: KU woods swarmed
- Large number could eventually turn into ‘tornado of butterflies’
- May 6, 2012
- At first, Mark Robbins thought he heard a gentle rain as he walked through the Kansas University Fitch Natural History Reservation. Robbins, the ornithology collection manager at KU, was looking for birds in the predawn darkness of the woodlands, which sit several miles north of Lawrence. As the sun rose, Robbins noticed the barren branches of the hackberries. While the rest of the trees in the woods looked as though it was mid-June, the hackberries had no leaves. Then he spotted caterpillars — tens of thousands of them.
- Douglas County tornado watch canceled
- 07:03 p.m., April 27, 2012 Updated 09:58 p.m.
- The National Weather Service in Topeka allowed a tornado watch for Douglas County to expire at 9 p.m.
- Douglas County under tornado watch until 9 p.m.
- April 27, 2012
- The National Weather Service has placed Douglas County under a tornado watch until 9 p.m.
- Lawrence, Topeka reach record temperatures Wednesday
- April 25, 2012
- The high temperature recorded for today in Lawrence — 94 degrees — beat out a record set April 25, 1989, by two degrees.
- Gift, grant help replace trees in Greensburg
- April 22, 2012
- Joan Hayse misses the way the giant old maples, elms, and cottonwood trees would arch across the streets of town forming a canopy of shade in the heat of the Kansas summer.
- KU meteorology students crazy about the chase
- But they’re less fond of amateurs who know little about storm safety
- April 22, 2012
- For once, Garrett Black and the three other people in the car were in exactly the right spot at exactly the right time. And for Black, a Kansas University junior studying atmospheric science, and the three people in his car, that meant a video of a tornado near Geneseo that got picked up by The Weather Channel, ABC News and other media outlets.
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- Three KU professors awarded Fulbright grants May 16, 2012
- City Commission wants Taste Lounge's liquor license revoked May 16, 2012
- Coroner identifies deceased inmate at Douglas County Jail May 14, 2012
