Heat Heads East: June and All-Time Record Highs in Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas

7 PM CDT Update: The updated high temperatures and new all-time June records are 108° at St. Louis and 107° at Columbia, Missouri.

4 PM CDT Update: The 106° so far at Evansville, Indiana is unofficially an all-time June record, surpassing the previous maximum on June 26, 1954 by 2°.

The National Weather Service reports that Louisville, Kentucky also tied the all-time June record high temperature:

THE ALL TIME RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR JUNE...102 DEGREES...WAS   
TIED TODAY AT LOUISVILLE KY. THE LAST TIME THIS TEMPERATURE OCCURRED   
WAS ALSO ON JUNE 28TH BACK IN 1944...WHICH MEANS THE RECORD HIGH   
TEMPERATURE ALSO WAS TIED FOR THIS DATE.  

Little Rock and Harrison, Arkansas broke their all-time June temperature records by 2°:

AT 324 PM CDT...THE OFFICIAL TEMPERATURE AT LITTLE ROCK REACHED 107   
DEGREES...MAKING IT THE HOTTEST JUNE DAY EVER RECORDED IN THE CITY.  
  
THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 105 DEGREES ON JUNE 20 1936...JUNE 29 1988...  
AND JUNE 25 2012 /3 DAYS AGO/.  

AT 351 PM CDT...THE OFFICIAL TEMPERATURE AT HARRISON REACHED 107   
DEGREES...MAKING IT THE HOTTEST JUNE DAY EVER RECORDED IN THE CITY.  
  
THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 105 DEGREES ON JUNE 20 1936.  

Original Post:
The record heat wave moved eastward into the Midwest today. All-time high temperature records for any month and for June have already been set or tied at Fort Wayne and Indianapolis, respectively. The 106° Fort Wayne report at 4 pm ties the all-time record high previously observed on 6/25/1988, 7/14/1936, and 7/22/1934. For Indianapolis, the National Weather Service reports:

THE TEMPERATURE HAS RISEN TO 104 DEGREES AT THE INDIANAPOLIS   
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AS OF 301 PM EDT. THIS BREAKS THE RECORD HIGH   
TEMPERATURE FOR THE DATE AS WELL AS THE RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR   
THE MONTH OF JUNE.  
  
THE PREVIOUS RECORD FOR JUNE 28 WAS 101...SET IN 1934. THE PREVIOUS   
RECORD FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE WAS 102...LAST SET JUNE 25 1988.  
  
IN ADDITION TO SETTING RECORDS FOR THE DAY AND MONTH...THE 104   
DEGREES IS THE WARMEST SO EARLY IN THE SEASON FOR THE INDIANAPOLIS   
AREA.  
  
THE 104 DEGREES IS ALSO THE WARMEST IN NEARLY 58 YEARS...SINCE IT   
WAS LAST 104 DEGREES ON JULY 14 1954.  
  
WITH PLENTY OF SUNSHINE LEFT IN THE DAY...THE TEMPERATURE MAY   
CONTINUE TO RISE AND PUSH THE RECORDS EVEN HIGHER. THE ALL-TIME HIGH   
TEMPERATURE RECORD FOR THE INDIANAPOLIS AREA IS 106 DEGREES...LAST   
SET JULY 14 1936.  
  
WEATHER RECORDS BEGAN IN INDIANAPOLIS IN 1871.  

In Missouri, reports so far of 106° so far at both Columbia and St. Louis are new all-time June records:

A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 106 DEGREES HAS BEEN REACHED AT COLUMBIA   
REGIONAL AIRPORT TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 103 SET IN 1936.   
THIS IS ALSO A NEW ALL-TIME RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH OF   
JUNE FOR COLUMBIA...BREAKING THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 105 DEGREES ON   
JUNE 19 1936. 

A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 106 DEGREES HAS BEEN REACHED AT   
ST. LOUIS TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 104 SET IN 1952.  
THIS IS ALSO A NEW ALL-TIME RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH   
OF JUNE FOR ST. LOUIS...BREAKING THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 105 DEGREES   
ON JUNE 25 1952 AND JUNE 19 1936.