Widespread frontally forced snowfall event across the Nebraska Panhandle led to 6 to 12 inches of snow accumulation across the southern panhandle including Sidney, Kimball, and Harrisburg.
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The episode as NWS CYS wrote it up.
Widespread frontally forced snowfall event across the Nebraska Panhandle led to 6 to 12 inches of snow accumulation across the southern panhandle including Sidney, Kimball, and Harrisburg.
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 Jan 5, 12:03 AM MST, 4 hours 32 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 heavy snow, 1 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Received report from the public in Kimball on social media of 16 inches of snow accumulation by the morning of the 6th. Additional reports across Kimball County of 7 to 9 inches including CO-OP observer 15 miles south of Bushnell near the Colorado border.
CoCoRaHS observer 9 miles southwest of Harrisburg reported 9 inches of snow accumulation by the morning of the 6th. Additional reports across Banner County of 4 to 6 inches were reported from CO-OP observers and emergency managers.
Received report of 7 inches of snow accumulation in Sidney. Additional CoCoRaHS observations across Cheyenne County reported 4.5 to 6.0 inches of snow accumulation by the morning of the 6th. Heaviest snowfall according to the Sidney Airport ASOS station (KSNY) occurred between 11 AM MST and 3 PM MST on the 5th.
Public reported 5 inches of snow accumulation in Bridgeport.
Multiple reports of 4.5 to 5.5 inches of snow accumulation from the public, training spotters, and CoCoRaHS observers in and around Scottsbluff and Gering. Report of 6.3 inches of snow accumulation along the Wyoming border near Lyman by the morning of the 6th.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, January 2022
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: 995225, 995226, 995224, 995481, 995227.