Heavy Snow in Nebraska, November 10, 2008

Name: Heavy Snow in Nebraska, November 10, 2008
Start: 2008-11-10T16:00
End: 2008-11-10T23:30
Location: Nebraska

November 10, 2008 · NWS LBF · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A band of heavy snowfall occurred across portions of extreme southwest Nebraska beginning in the late afternoon hours and continuing through the evening hours on November 10th. Chase and eastern Perkins County received storm total snowfall amounts ranging from 6 to 15 inches.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS LBF wrote it up.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 10, 2:46 PM MST, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 10, 2:46 PM MST, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 10, 2:46 PM MST, 1 hour 14 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
346 PM CST MON NOV 10 2008

NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-112200-
SHERIDAN-EASTERN CHERRY-KEYA PAHA-BOYD-BROWN-ROCK-HOLT-GARDEN-
GRANT-HOOKER-THOMAS-BLAINE-LOUP-GARFIELD-WHEELER-ARTHUR-MCPHERSON-
LOGAN-CUSTER-DEUEL-KEITH-PERKINS-LINCOLN-CHASE-HAYES-FRONTIER-
WESTERN CHERRY-
346 PM CST MON NOV 10 2008 /246 PM MST MON NOV 10 2008/

WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST /8 AM MST/.

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND
NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

A STORM SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE PLAINS THROUGH
TONIGHT. A HEAVY BAND OF PRECIPITATION WILL BECOME POSITIONED
FROM SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA INTO CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. A
MIXTURE OF RAIN...SLEET...AND FREEZING RAIN IS INITIALLY
EXPECTED...BUT WILL QUICKLY CHANGE OVER TO SNOW AS TEMPERATURES
COOL BELOW FREEZING. THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED OVER
WESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA...WHERE 3 TO 5 INCHES OF SNOW
ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE. ELSEWHERE...FREEZING RAIN OCCASIONALLY
MIXED WITH SNOW IS EXPECTED ALONG AND EAST OF A SPRINGVIEW TO
BROKEN BOW LINE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

THE STORM SYSTEM WILL EXIT THE REGION ON TUESDAY...WITH EARLY
MORNING SNOWFALL TAPERING OFF BY AFTERNOON FROM THE WEST TO EAST.
AS THIS HAPPENS...SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF LESS THAN AN INCH ARE
EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

&&

THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...
HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION...AT
HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/NORTHPLATTE

GARNER

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 10, 4:00 PM MST, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
500 PM CST MON NOV 10 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0500 PM     HEAVY SNOW       IMPERIAL                40.52N 101.64W
11/10/2008  M0.0 INCH        CHASE              NE   CO-OP OBSERVER

&&

MPOWER

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Event by event

1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Chase

When: November 10, 4:00 PM MST to 11:30 PM MST
Where: Chase forecast zone
Reported by: COOP Observer
Coordinates: 40.524, -101.698 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Snowfall of six inches was reported by a cooperative weather observer in Imperial at 8 pm CST with the storm total snowfall of 10.5 inches. Up to 15 inches of snow was reported five miles southwest of Imperial. Hourly snowfall rates of one and a half to two inches of snow per hour were observed at Imperial from 4 pm CST until the snowfall diminished at 1030 pm CST. During this time, visibilities were occasionally reduced to a quarter mile or less.

What these are

Heavy Snow: Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Nebraska in 2008 Every state in 2008 This day in weather history Warnings in Nebraska, November 2008

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 134870.