Weather Alerts For Gridley, KS

# HEADLINE -------------------- FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING # DETAILS -------------------- WHAT Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be possible. WHERE Portions of central, east central, north central, and northeast Kansas, including the following counties, in central Kansas, Dickinson. In east central Kansas, Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Geary, Lyon, Morris, Osage, Shawnee and Wabaunsee. In north central Kansas, Ottawa. In northeast Kansas, Jefferson. WHEN Through Friday morning. IMPACTS Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations. Creeks and streams may rise out of their banks. ADDITIONAL DETAILS - Thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall are likely this afternoon through tomorrow morning. Widespread one to two inches of rainfall is likely, with isolated higher amounts possible. ISSUED AT Thursday, June 25, 2026 at 11:37 AM CDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service Topeka KS HEADER URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED | Flood Watch # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood Warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared to take action should flooding develop. # AREAS AFFECTED -------------------- Lyon, Anderson, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas, Franklin, Geary, Jefferson, Morris, Osage, Ottawa, Shawnee, Wabaunsee Including the cities of Bennington, Alta Vista, Junction City, Minneapolis, Ottawa, Perry, Meriden, McFarland, Osage City, Burlingame, Overbrook, Lebo, Herington, Valley Falls, Abilene, Oskaloosa, Emporia, McLouth, Council Grove, Garnett, Lyndon, Nortonville, Alma, Carbondale, Maple Hill, Lawrence, Paxico, Harveyville, Burlington, Eskridge, Grantville, and Topeka

Closest strike: 2.21 miles Stay Alert! Remain in a safe area until there has been no lightning within 10 miles of this location for 30 minutes. Please be aware that lightning activity can remain high even when a storm is moving away from your location. Even if rain has stopped, do not leave your safe area until WeatherBug indicates that lightning is more than 10 miles away from this selected location. IF OUTDOORS Avoid water, high ground, and open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, and machinery. Find a safe area in a building or in a fully enclosed vehicle with the windows completely shut. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, convertibles, or near trees. IF INDOORS Avoid water and stay away from doors and windows. Avoid using a hard line telephone. Take off headphones. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, and TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.

There is a Marginal Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHWESTERN/WEST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA SUMMARY Evolving clusters of storms may still pose a risk for producing strong to severe wind gusts across parts of the south central Great Plains tonight. 01Z Update.. A weak lee surface cyclone centered across the northern Texas Panhandle and remnant surface boundary, reinforced by convective outflow and differential afternoon surface heating, appear likely to provide the primary focus for strongest thunderstorm development into the overnight hours. Forcing for ascent associated with low-level convergence and warm advection to the east of the low has supported an evolving cluster of storms now propagating east-southeastward into western Oklahoma, in the presence of 20 kt westerly deep-layer mean flow. Due to veering of wind fields with height in lower to mid-levels, deep-layer shear is strong, and further intensification still appears possible as the surface cold pool continues to strengthen, and updraft inflow increasingly emanates from a boundary layer over west central Oklahoma characterized by seasonably high moisture content with sizable potential instability. Upstream, forcing for ascent associated with a weak mid-level perturbation appears to be contributing to increasing thunderstorm development across parts of southwestern Kansas into the Texas Panhandle. This activity may continue to grow upscale this evening, with stronger convective development perhaps becoming focused along outflow trailing the preceding cluster by late this evening, while developing southeastward. Some risk for a couple of tornadoes continues, but the risk for strong, damaging wind gusts will increasingly become the primary potential severe hazard through mid to late evening. Otherwise, though it is appearing more uncertain, the remnant baroclinic zone to the east of the surface low could still become a focus for another evolving cluster of storms later tonight, as it remains quasi-stationary or shifts slowly northward across parts of northern Oklahoma/southern Kansas.