Freezing rain, mixed with sleet, fell over extreme northeast Nebraska during the morning of February 26th. The precipitation made driving and walking surfaces slippery.
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The episode as NWS FSD wrote it up.
Freezing rain, mixed with sleet, fell over extreme northeast Nebraska during the morning of February 26th. The precipitation made driving and walking surfaces slippery.
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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 26, 4:53 AM CST, 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
450 AM CST THU FEB 25 2009
.DISCUSSION...
SEAT OF THE PANTS FCST AS SYSTEM IS MOVG FASTER AND FURTHER NORTH
THAN PREV FCSTS AND MODELS...AND PRECIP TYPE STILL A QUESTION. N/S
BAND OF CONVECTIVE LIKE WINTER PRECIP WITH SNOW NORTH AND ZR AND IP
SOUTH...MOVG EWD THRU JAMES VALLEY ATTM...WITH MAIN BAROCLINIC ZONE
JUST NORTH OF CWA. SO WINTER WX ADVY STILL LOOKS GOOD WITH BAND OF
WINTER PRECIP...BUT MOVG EAST FASTER THAN PREV FCST. MOISTURE INFLOW
INTO SYSTEM ALSO APPEARS TO BE LACKING FOR MAJOR WINTER EVENT.
THOUGHT ABOUT DOWNGRADING WINTER STORM WARNING...BUT BAND COULD
STILL BLOW UP IN FAR NRN CWA AS AIR MASS SATURATES THIS MRNG...AND
DID NOT WANT TO FLIP/FLOP. CUT BACK SNOW AMOUNTS ACROSS THE BOARD...
BUT LATER SHIFTS COULD DO SOME MORE ESP IN WRN CWA WHERE QUASI DRY
SLOT IS MOVG EWD THIS MRNG. OTRW SOME WRAPAROUND LGT SNOW SHOULD
STILL MOVE SEWD OVER CWA THRU THE AFTN WITH NELY FLOW BECMG STG NLY
PULLING DOWN MUCH COLDER AIR WITH FALLING TEMPS. CUT BACK LOWS...AND
ESP HIGHS FOR FRI WITH ARCTIC AIR. DID UP POPS MAINLY FOR SWRN HLF
CWA FRI AND SRN CWA FOR FRI NGT WITH A COUPLE INCHES PSBL WITH NICE
UPR LOW MOVG SEWD OVER CWA.
&&
.AVIATION...
WILL BE FORTHCOMING AFT THE 12Z TAFS.
&&
.FSD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
IA...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR IAZ001-
012.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 1 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR IAZ020-
031.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR IAZ002-
013-014-021-022-032.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 9 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR IAZ003.
MN...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR MNZ098.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 9 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR MNZ089-
090.
WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL 9 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR MNZ071-072-
080-081-097.
NE...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 1 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR NEZ013-
014.
SD...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR
SDZ054>056-061-062-066-067.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 1 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR SDZ070-
071.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 1 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR SDZ050-
052-053-057>060-063>065-068-069.
WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL 4 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON FOR
SDZ038>040.
&&
RSRHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 0531 AM CST WED FEB 25 2009 SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-261200- AURORA-BEADLE-BON HOMME-BROOKINGS-BRULE-BUENA VISTA IA- CHARLES MIX-CHEROKEE IA-CLAY-CLAY IA-COTTONWOOD MN-DAKOTA NE- DAVISON-DICKINSON IA-DIXON NE-DOUGLAS-GREGORY-HANSON-HUTCHINSON- IDA IA-JACKSON MN-JERAULD-KINGSBURY-LAKE-LINCOLN-LINCOLN MN- LYON IA-LYON MN-MCCOOK-MINER-MINNEHAHA-MOODY-MURRAY MN-NOBLES MN- OBRIEN IA-OSCEOLA IA-PIPESTONE MN-PLYMOUTH IA-ROCK MN-SANBORN- SIOUX IA-TURNER-UNION-WOODBURY IA-YANKTON- 0531 AM CST WED FEB 25 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WINTER WEATHER... SNOW WILL DEVELOP NORTH OF INTERSTATE 90 IN SOUTH DAKOTA LATER TONIGHT...WITH A MIXTURE OF FREEZING RAIN...SLEET...AND SNOW EXPECTED TO THE SOUTH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY HEAVY SNOW SHOULD AFFECT AREAS NORTH OF INTERSTATE 90 IN SOUTH DAKOTA LATER TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING...MOVING OVER ALL OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA TO NORTHERN PARTS OF NORTHWEST IOWA BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON. THE SNOW SHOULD BE PRECEDED BY FREEZING RAIN MIXED WITH SNOW AND SLEET ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 90 IN THE MORNING. TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS SHOULD RANGE FROM 6 TO 9 INCHES ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 14 IN SOUTH DAKOTA AND IN MOST OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...TO 1 TO 3 INCHES ALONG THE MISSOURI VALLEY TO SOUTHERN PARTS OF NORTHWEST IOWA. HOWEVER...UP TO A QUARTER INCH OF ICE WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 90...WITH THE HEAVIEST ICE LIKELY THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING IN NORTHERN PARTS OF NORTHWEST IOWA. ANOTHER WEAKER SYSTEM MAY PROVIDE UP TO A FEW INCHES OF SNOWFALL IN THE AREA FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SIOUXFALLS. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK. RSR
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Freezing rain, mixed with sleet, caused icy areas on roads and walking surfaces.
Freezing rain, mixed with sleet, caused icy areas on roads and walking surfaces.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, February 2009
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 154835, 154836.