Arctic Snow Strands Kansas In Deep Freeze
An Arctic high-pressure system dumped up to four inches of snow across western and central Kansas. Blowing snow reduced visibility to near zero, temperatures fell below zero, and wind chills reached 30 below. Dozens of schools closed, KU canceled class but reopened, and highways faced icy, snowpacked stretches with three northeast routes closed.
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Kansas
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National Weather Service
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Potter
Denton
Purcell
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Muscotah
Effingham
Record cold grips Colorado with historic Denver low
An Arctic air mass pinned Colorado in a deep freeze tying a 113 year low of minus 10 in Denver and plunging to about 24 below in places. Forecasters say the pattern will persist with little change and only thin recovery possible into the weekend as other valleys report subzero readings and potential highs in the teens.
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Associated Press
Colorado
Denver
National Weather Service
Craig
Reef
Mountain Valley
Dave Mann
Kansas Extended Forecast Cold with Scattered Snow Likely
Kansas forecast calls for a cold period from Sunday through Monday with little or no precipitation. Highs expected to range from 10 to 20 degrees, with lows from zero to 10 below. Warmer conditions not anticipated.
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Kansas
Local Area Forecast For Thursday Night Through Friday
The forecast calls for Thursday night with a 40 percent chance of snow and a low between zero and 10 below. Northeast winds 5 to 15 mph. Friday brings a 50 percent chance of snow with a high from 5 to 16 above and northeast winds 15 to 25 mph. Sunrise Friday is 7 47, sunset 6 07. Record lows and highs are noted for this date with past readings and precipitation totals to date. Data provided by Garden City Experiment Station.
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Garden City Experiment Station
Bitterly cold national weather brief with regional notes
No temperatures listed due to computer problems. Colorado reports very cold conditions with snow ending in the east and near zero highs in mountains and teens elsewhere. Missouri advisories warn of extreme cold with possible snow, Nebraska stays very cold with zero to ten above in south, Oklahoma faces a winter storm watch with up to six inches southeast and two to four inches north, Panhandle lows near two below to nine east.
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Panhandle
Arctic cold front grips nation as snow spans large swathes
The potentially dangerous arctic wave pushed from the Great Lakes to Texas with wind chill as low as 46 below in Iowa. Schools closed in Kansas and Georgia amid a Canadian cold snap blamed for four deaths. In Arizona helicopters airlifted food fuel medicine and livestock feed to isolated Hopi and Navajo reservations north of Keams Canyon. Travelers faced advisories from southern Illinois to the mid-Atlantic with up to 4 inches of snow. Overnight storm watches extended from eastern Texas to northern Alabama and western Tennessee.
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Keams Canyon
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mid-Atlantic
National Weather Service
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Lebanon
Rolla
Weather Service
Dixie
Alabama
Tennessee
Toxic shock suit filed over wife’s death in Garden City
A Garden City man sues International Playtex Inc and St. Catherine Hospital in Sedgwick County District Court over his wife Cheryl Lee Hapes death from toxic shock syndrome on January 30, 1983. The suit, filed by Wichita attorney Mark Hutton, seeks at least 10,000 in actual damages and 10,000 in punitive damages. Defendants include physician Andrew Zimet Spectrum Emergency Care and St. Catherine Hospital. Zimet no longer practices in Garden City, and St. Catherine no longer contracts with Spectrum.
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Donard
International Playtex Inc
Sedgwick County
Playtex
Cheryl Lee Hapes
Wichita
Mark Hutton
Hapes
Hutton
Kansas
Andrew Zimet
Spectrum Emergency Care, Inc
Zimet
Hospital Admissions and Dismissals List City and Ulysses
On Wednesday admissions included Antonia Carrasco John Garza Carroll Jaso Ngoi Pham Peggy Toland Tamara Traugott Luz Urrutia in Garden City and Larry Rumburg in Ulysses Dismissals from Garden City included Jeffrey Clark Julie Herrmann and baby girl Lester Lamb Otis Schaffer Pearl Weller in Ulysses Bertha Allman and baby girl Jose Hernandez Cody Roy A list of recent hospital entries and releases drawn from Garden City and Ulysses records.
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Garden City
Antonia Carrasco
John Garza
Carroll Jaso
Ngoi Pham
Peggy Toland
Tamara Traugott
Luz Urrutia
Ulysses
Larry Rumburg
Jeffrey Clark
Julie Herrmann
Lester Lamb
Otis Schaffer
Pearl Weller
Bertha Allman
Jose Hernandez
Cody Roy
Kassebaum seeks plan to expand farm debt relief
Sen. Nan Kassebaum voices alarm at a farm economy crisis and proposes expanding the Reagan debt refinancing program to four billion dollars, boosting loan guarantees, lowering interest rates, and easing banking rules to speed aid for farmers facing bankruptcy and lenders facing ripple effects. The plan includes quicker processing by the Farmers Home Administration and potential administrative action within 90 days if Congress or the president do not act.
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Nancy Kassebaum
Kansas Republican
Reagan
Congress
Kassebaum
Agriculture Department
Farmers Home Administration
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