Strong winds were measured across portions of the Nebraska Panhandle with measured wind gusts measured in the upper 50 mph range with a 60 mph measured gust west of Harrisburg. Quickly following the strong winds, a winter storm hampered the area with heavy snow of six to nearly eight inches.
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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.
The episode as NWS CYS wrote it up.
Strong winds were measured across portions of the Nebraska Panhandle with measured wind gusts measured in the upper 50 mph range with a 60 mph measured gust west of Harrisburg. Quickly following the strong winds, a winter storm hampered the area with heavy snow of six to nearly eight inches.
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 Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 23, 4:55 AM MST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 heavy snow, 2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Site at Kimball measured several strong wind gusts ranging from 59 to 63 mph during the period.
Sensor K1BW, a FAA site in Bravo or fourteen miles west of Harrisburg measured the reported wind gust.
Observer in Harrison measured a storm total of 7.0 inches of snowfall.
Observer measured 6.0 inches of snowfall at their location ten miles south-southeast of Broadwater.
Observer two miles south of Chadron State Park measured the reported snowfall of 6.6 inches. A public report from the city of Chadron measured 6.0 inches of snowfall.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2018Every state in 2018This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, November 2018
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: 792603, 792601, 792605, 792606, 792607.