Excessive Heat in Sumner, Kansas

The searing heat claimed one life, when a 47 year old man was riding his bicycle in the triple digit heat and collapsed on the side of the road near Oxford, Kansas. He was later pronouced dead from a heat related cardivascular collapse.

An extended period of 100 degree heat settled over the region from the middle portion of the month until the end of the month. High temperatures across most of Central and South Central Kansas stayed at or above 98 degrees for seventeen straight days, with some areas seeing max temperatures reaching 109 to 113 degrees. The hot temperatures reached their peak on July 27th, as Salina, Kansas soared to 113 degrees and Wichita, Kansas climbed to 111 degrees for the second time this month. The area had not witnessed a stretch of 100 degree heat like this since the early 1980s.