| Event | Extreme Heat Watch |
| Severity | Severe |
| Urgency | Future |
| Certainty | Likely |
| Area | Atchison; Miami; Linn; Doniphan; Leavenworth; Wyandotte; Johnson; Atchison; Nodaway; Worth; Gentry; Harrison; Mercer; Putnam; Schuyler; Holt; Andrew; De Kalb; Daviess; Grundy; Sullivan; Adair; Buchanan; Clinton; Caldwell; Livingston; Linn; Macon; Platte; Clay; Ray; Carroll; Chariton; Randolph; Jackson; Lafayette; Saline; Howard; Cass; Johnson; Pettis; Cooper; Bates; Henry |
| Effective | 6/27/2026, 1:17:00 AM CDT |
| Expires | 6/27/2026, 3:00:00 PM CDT |
Extreme Heat Watch issued June 27 at 1:17AM CDT until June 30 at 9:00PM CDT by NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill MO
Details
* WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions with heat index values 105 or
higher possible. Additionally, overnight low temperatures will be
in the mid and upper 70s.
* WHERE…Portions of east central and northeast Kansas and central,
north central, northeast, northwest, and west central Missouri.
* WHEN…From Sunday afternoon through Tuesday 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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