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Excessive Rainfall in the Southern Plains; Extreme Heat Coming to the Southwest U.S.

Heavy to severe thunderstorms may bring areas of excessive rainfall and flooding over parts of the southern Plains through Friday. A Slight Risk of excessive rainfall has been issued. Dangerously hot temperatures are forecast across parts of southern Arizona and far southeastern California Saturday through Monday. An Extreme Heat Watch has been issued. 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.