Areas of Excessive Rainfall, Severe Thunderstorms, and Extreme Heat

Heavy to excessive rainfall is expected through tonight across portions of the central Plains. Areas of intense rainfall amounts could support increasing flooding concerns. Scattered severe thunderstorms are possible across parts of the central/southern Plains today and tonight, with large hail and damaging winds the main threats. Areas of extreme heat will impact parts of the West this week. Read More >

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Winter Storm Probabilistic Forecast

Published 2025-03-18

Winter Storm Probabilistic Forecast

Winter Weather Forecast

Published 2024-10-22

Winter weather probabilistic forecast can be found here.

NWS Confirms Two Tornadoes from July 1st Storms

Published 2024-07-03

Severe Weather Awareness Week in Nebraska - March 25-29, 2024

Published 2024-03-20

Kansas Severe Weather Awareness Week, March 4-8. Facts and Figures.

Published 2024-03-01

NWS Needs Your Feedback! Take our Survey about Changes to the Advisory and Statement Process.

Published 2023-05-16

March 27-31, 2023: Nebraska Severe Weather Awareness Week Information Packet (PDF)

Published 2023-03-19

Kansas Severe Weather Awareness Week - March 6-10, 2023

Published 2023-02-06

A Look Back at Notable Weather Events in 2022!!

Published 2022-12-29

Learn More About Winter Weather Preparedness with our Winter Weather Day Information

Published 2022-11-08

Winter Outlook 2022-2023

Published 2022-10-21

Winter Outlook 2022-2023

Adams County Emergency Management: 2022 WRN Ambassador of Excellence

Published 2022-09-20

Nebraska Severe Weather Awareness Week March 21-25

Published 2022-03-15

March 7-11, 2022: Kansas Severe Weather Preparedness Week (pdf)

Published 2022-02-17

Light Snow Possible Tonight Into Wednesday

Published 2022-02-01

Snowfall Forecast

2021 Temperature/Precipitation Extremes (Tri Cities and Entire NWS Hastings Coverage Area)

Published 2021-12-26

Thoughts on Frost and Freeze Forecasts? Give Your Feedback by Taking Our Survey.

Published 2021-11-19

Thursday, November 4th Is Nebraska Winter Weather Awareness Day - Click for PDF

Published 2021-11-01

The NWS wants your opinion! Please consider taking a few minutes to complete this survey on proposed changes to advisories, hazards and other messaging. Thank you.

Published 2021-07-08

NWS Hastings Virtual Spotter Talks in March. Learn More and Sign Up Here

Published 2021-02-22

Kansas Severe Weather Awareness Week March 1-5. Find out more information.

Published 2021-02-22

Winter Storm Snow/Ice Forecast

Published 2020-12-29

New NWS Radar Page: Learning How to Navigate & FAQs

Published 2020-12-18

Clay County Emergency Management honored as a 2020 Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador of Excellence

Published 2020-09-21

NWS Hastings Virtual Spotter Talk

Published 2020-05-07

2019 Precipitation Map (Entire Coverage Area) and Monthly Stats for 5 Specific Sites (G. Island/Hastings/Kearney/Ord/Smith Center)

Published 2020-01-01

December 27-29, 2019: Significant Rain Most Areas, Followed By 4-13" of Snow For Much of South Central Nebraska

Published 2019-12-31

2019 Top Weather Events & Climate Extremes

Published 2019-12-23

2019 SkyWarn Recognition Day this Weekend

Published 2019-12-03

Nov. 26, 2019: 6-10" of Snow (and strong winds) Impact the Northwestern 2/3 of Our Area

Published 2019-11-27

Sept 2019: 4th-Warmest On Record In Grand Island/Hastings

Published 2019-09-30

May 26-28, 2019: Tornadoes on 3-Consecutive Days! (including an EF-2 in KS)

Published 2019-06-03

Franklin County Tornado Survey Results

Published 2019-05-27

May 5th: 55th Anniversary (1964) Of Last Recorded F5/EF5 Tornado In Nebraska

Published 2019-05-04

March 25-29: Nebraska Severe Weather Awareness Week

Published 2019-03-17

Sept. 2018: Weather/Climate Review For South Central NE/North Central KS

Published 2018-10-25

National Weather Service Hastings Nebraska WSR-88D Radar Outage

Published 2018-10-06

The National Weather Service Radar in Blue Hill Nebraska is currently out of service for unknown reasons. Technicians have been notified and are working on the issue, but a restoration time is unknown.