NWS Omaha Weather Radar Is Down for Scheduled Maintenance

Heavy Rain in the Southern Appalachians; Heat Continues in the West; Monitoring Tropical Storm Erin

Heavy to excessive rain falling over the southern Appalachians may bring areas of flooding into Wednesday. Hot temperatures are in place through Wednesday across parts of the western U.S. and New England. Tropical Storm Erin is forecast to become a Hurricane by late this week as it moves westward across the central Atlantic Ocean. Monitor forecasts for any Puerto Rico or U.S. East Coast impacts. Read More >

...OMAHA WEATHER RADAR IS DOWN FOR SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE... The weather radar at the National Weather Service in Omaha/Valley is down for maintenance, thus no radar information is being transmitted. If severe weather is threatening during the radar outage, forecasters will use surrounding radar sites to interrogate storms and will still be able to provide timely and accurate warning services. The exact outage duration is unknown, but will likely be through 4pm today The surrounding radar sites serving parts of eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa include: Des Moines (KDMX) Kansas City (KEAX) Topeka (KTWX) Hastings (KUEX) North Platte (KLNX) (will be down for an upgrade until 3pm) Sioux Falls (KFSD) Visit radar.weather.gov to access alternate NOAA weather radar sites.