NWS Omaha Weather Radar Is Down for Scheduled Maintenance

Critical Fire Weather Conditions in the Plains; Heavy Snow in the Sierra and Northern Rockies

Gusty winds and warm, very dry conditions will lead to a Critical Risk of fire weather across much of the High Plains through Thursday. A Pacific storm system will bring strong winds and precipitation from the Pacific Northwest to the Northern Rockies, with heavy mountain snow in the Sierra-Nevada and northern Rockies. Heavy snow will continue in the northern Rockies on Thursday. 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.