Severe Thunderstorms and Heavy Rain in the Central Plains to Upper Midwest; Extreme Heat in Parts of the South

Thunderstorms with severe wind gusts and hail will be possible today across parts of the central Plains, and from the Missouri Valley into the upper Mississippi Valley. Heavy rain associated with the thunderstorms may also produce flash/urban flooding. Critical fire weather conditions expected in the Great Basin and interior Northwest. Dangerous heat continues across the Southwest and Southeast. Read More >

The National Weather Service office in Lincoln operates a network of over 60 cooperative weather observers. These observers, most of whom volunteer their services, take daily observations of temperature, precipitation, or river levels. These observations are used by the local NWS forecasters, River Forecast Centers near Minneapolis and Wilmington OH, and the media. They are also archived at the National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, North Carolina, and are important in studying the long-term climate of the area.

Lincoln NWS personnel assist with various functions of the program:

Overseeing data collection, quality control, and dissemination of observational data from the office.
Use of the data for hydrological purposes, contacting external agencies such as the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) as necessary.
Maintenance of equipment and associated metadata.

Cooperative Observer Program Topics:
COOP Home, Latest Observations, Observation Techniques,
Equipment, National COOP Page

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