| Event | Extreme Heat Watch |
| Severity | Severe |
| Urgency | Future |
| Certainty | Likely |
| Area | Miami; Linn; Saline; Howard; Cass; Johnson; Pettis; Cooper; Bates; Henry |
| Effective | 8/8/2026, 10:13:00 PM CDT |
| Expires | 8/9/2026, 5:00:00 PM CDT |
Extreme Heat Watch issued August 8 at 10:13PM CDT until August 12 at 8:00PM CDT by NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
Details
* WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions with heat index values up to 107
possible.
* WHERE…In Kansas, Linn KS and Miami Counties. In Missouri, Cooper,
Howard, Pettis, Saline, Bates, Cass, Henry, and Johnson MO
Counties.
* WHEN…From Sunday afternoon through Wednesday evening.
* IMPACTS…Heat related illnesses increase significantly during
extreme heat and high humidity events.
Instructions
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of
the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.
This alert was automatically posted by SkyGuard, MWSC’s severe weather alerting system. Source: National Weather Service.
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