Nebraska, 2022

Excessive Heat and Heat in Nebraska, August 5, 2022

August 5, 2022 · NWS CYS · 3 events in 3 counties and zones

High temperatures across the Nebraska Panhandle were in the triple digits after morning lows only dropped into the 70s. This was also the second consecutive day of hot temperatures across the region.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
3

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 CYS wrote it up.

High temperatures across the Nebraska Panhandle were in the triple digits after morning lows only dropped into the 70s. This was also the second consecutive day of hot temperatures across the region.

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 Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 5, 10:07 AM MST, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 10:07 AM MST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
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Event by event

2 heat, 1 excessive heat. Local standard time, as filed.

Excessive Heat, Dawes

When
August 5, 12:00 PM MST to 5:00 PM MST
Where
Dawes forecast zone
Reported by
ASOS
Coordinates
42.720, -103.135 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Chadron Airport ASOS station (KCDR) measured an afternoon high temperature of 109 degrees Fahrenheit. This was tied for the 6th hottest day all-time for Chadron. The heat index also reached 105 degrees Fahrenheit.

Heat, Scotts Bluff

When
August 5, 12:30 PM MST to 4:00 PM MST
Where
Scotts Bluff forecast zone
Reported by
ASOS
Coordinates
41.851, -103.708 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Scottsbluff Airport ASOS station (KBFF) measured an afternoon high temperature of 106 degrees Fahrenheit. The heat index also exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Heat, Box Butte

When
August 5, 1:00 PM MST to 3:00 PM MST
Where
Box Butte forecast zone
Reported by
ASOS
Coordinates
42.220, -103.086 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Alliance Airport ASOS station (KAIA) measured an afternoon high temperature of 104 degrees Fahrenheit. The heat index also exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

What these are

Excessive Heat
Heat at or above the local excessive heat warning criteria, or heat that caused deaths.
Heat
Heat below excessive heat criteria that still caused deaths, injuries or significant impacts.

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

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Nebraska in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, August 2022

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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1040103, 1040105, 1040104.