(KLZA)-- Extreme Heat Warnings and Heat Advisories are in effect today with feels like temperatures Monday will be between 103-115 degrees.

The heat alerts are in effect until 8 p.m. this evening with dangerous heat expected to linger in southeast Nebraska into Tuesday.

An Extreme Heat Warning is in effect for all of southeast Nebraska as well as Atchison and Holt counties in northwest Missouri, with the heat index expected to be up to around 115 degrees.

All of northeast Kansas is under a Heat Advisory until 8 p.m this evening with the heat index expect to be up to 105 degrees.

Heat related illnesses including heat cramps, heat exhaustion and even heat stroke are possible with the extreme heat.

Be sure to drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of the sun and check up on relatives and neighbors.

The dangerous heat is forecast to continue through Tuesday in southeast Nebraska and northwest Missouri before temperatures drop Wednesday and into the latter part of the week.

Those cooler temperatures will being chances of storms, a few of which cold be strong to severe into Wednesday, with damaging winds and localized flooding being the main threats.