Nevada, Missouri · Thursday, September 9, 2010
[SeMissourian.com] Rain Fog/Mist ~ 71°F  
Flash Flood Watch
High: 77°F ~ Low: 69°F
Events

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Tuesday, the Vernon County Adult Recovery Court met for the 22nd graduation since the program began as the Vernon County Adult Drug Court in 2001. Judge James Bickel introduced the graduate, Teresa Butler, and said that she...
Emergency crews responded to a wreck approximately four miles west of Deerfield on U.S. 54 Highway at about 6:30 Wednesday evening. The car, apparently westbound, appeared to have veered off the north side of 54 and downed...
Program gives pre-readers early exposure to world of books
The Nevada High School's Tiger Pride Marching Band and Band Boosters are inviting the community to come out and support the band and have some fun at the same time. On Saturday, Sept. 11, the band will hold it's first 5K...
A Kansas City Power and Light worker disconnects a power line that fell over a tractor-trailer owned by Celedon and driven by Scotty Yordt, of Muscatine, Iowa, at the Fuel Mart truck stop in Nevada, Friday after noon A...
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Forecast
National Weather Service forecast for Nevada, Missouri:

Tonight
Isolated T-storms
Low: 69
Tomorrow
Chance Rain
High: 77
Low: 70
Friday
Chance T-storms
High: 89
Low: 71
Saturday
Slight Chance T-storms
High: 84
Low: 60
Sunday
Slight Chance T-storms
High: 84
Low: 64
Monday
Slight Chance T-storms
High: 86
Low: 66
Tuesday
Slight Chance T-storms
High: 84
Low: 65
Wednesday
Slight Chance T-storms
High: 80

Warnings
Flash Flood Watch in effect until 1:00 AM CDT on Friday for Vernon County and 20 other counties in Missouri
Flood Watch in effect until 5:00 PM CDT on Monday for Vernon County
Flood Watch in effect until 2:42 PM CDT on Tuesday for Vernon County
Flood Watch in effect until 7:00 PM CDT for Vernon County and 13 other counties in Missouri
Flash Flood Watch in effect until 1:00 AM CDT on Friday for Bourbon County, Kansas and 9 other counties in Kansas
Flash Flood Watch in effect until 4:00 AM CDT on Friday for Cedar County and 44 other counties in Missouri
Flood Watch in effect until 1:00 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Kansas and 29 other counties in Kansas
Flood Watch in effect until 10:30 AM CDT on Saturday for Bourbon County, Kansas
Flood Watch in effect until 12:30 AM CDT on Sunday for Bourbon County, Kansas
Flood Watch in effect until 7:00 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Kansas and 16 other counties in Kansas
Flood Watch in effect until 7:00 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Kansas and 7 other counties in Kansas
Flood Watch in effect until 11:53 AM CDT on Sunday for Cedar County

Advisories for Missouri · Kansas · Nationwide
Quakes
Most recently recorded earthquakes in the Central U.S. from the Center for Earthquake Research and Information (Times in Central):

Mag.WhenWhere
2.209/07 19:289 mi SSE of Arcadia, OK
2.309/07 19:257 mi E of Johnson, OK
1.109/06 12:291 mi NE of Guy, AR
0.809/06 05:531 mi NNE of Ridgely, TN
2.409/06 04:4419 mi SE of Tupper Lake, NY
1.009/06 04:255 mi WSW of Tiptonville, TN
1.509/05 20:424 mi SSE of Ridgely, TN
3.109/04 11:229 mi ESE of Arcadia, OK
1.509/04 08:073 mi NNW of Ridgely, TN
1.809/02 21:394 mi N of Enola, AR
2.009/02 17:421 mi ENE of Guy, AR
2.509/02 09:2167 mi N of Norfolk, NY

State news
  • SW Missouri school board to reconsider book ban
    STOCKTON, Mo. (AP) -- A southwest Missouri school board is reconsidering its decision to ban an award-winning novel that contains sexual jokes and references....
  • Vanity Fair reporter speaks out about Palin story
    KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The controversy over a Vanity Fair article about Sarah Palin continued Wednesday with the reporter disputing a conservative activist's claim that she tried to prevent him from mistaking her child for Palin's....
  • Audit cites poor oversight of Mo. tax credits
    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A state audit released Wednesday chided Missouri officials for poor oversight and inflated estimates of the economic benefits the state receives from a pair of business tax credit programs....
  • Study: Smoking ventilation systems don't work
    ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Ventilation systems in restaurants and bars don't protect employees or patrons from secondhand smoke, and venues with the systems had higher levels of nicotine in the air than sites without the devices, researchers in St. Louis said Wednesday....
  • Freed burglar says Mo. court system is broken
    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Dwight Laughlin says he learned two important lessons while serving 17 years in a state prison to which the Missouri Supreme Court ruled he never should have been sent....