LIVE: Tornado warnings active in northeast Kansas
TOPEKA (KSNT) – The National Weather Service (NWS) is reporting numerous counties are under threat of tornadic activity Saturday.
The NWS issued a tornado warning for Nemaha County on April 27. Ping pong size hail and damaging winds are possible.
If you live in or near the towns of Corning, Wetmore and Goff, the NWS encourages you to take shelter now. Move to a basement or interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building and avoid windows.
The NWS is also reporting a semi truck has blown over on I-70 near mile-marker 281. Tree limbs and other debris is covering the highway as well.
The NWS issued a tornado watch at 11:50 a.m. on April 27 for more than 40 counties in Kansas until 7 p.m. These include the following:
- Barber
- Butler
- Clay
- Comanche
- Douglas
- Ellsworth
- Harper
- Jefferson
- Lincoln
- Marshall
- Nemaha
- Pawnee
- Reno
- Russell
- Shawnee
- Wabaunsee
- Barton
- Chase
- Cloud
- Cowley
- Edwards
- Geary
- Harvey
- Kingman
- Lyon
- McPherson
- Osage
- Pottawatomie
- Rice
- Saline
- Stafford
- Washington
- Brown
- Chautauqua
- Coffey
- Dickinson
- Elk
- Greenwood
- Jackson
- Kiowa
- Marion
- Morris
- Ottawa
- Pratt
- Riley
- Sedgwick
- Sumner
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