During the afternoon hours on January 5th, a low pressure system moved over the Central High Plains bringing light to heavy snow accumulations across portions of Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas through the pre-dawn hours of the 6th. In extreme Southwest Nebraska, snow accumulations varied from 5 to 8 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 GLD wrote it up.
During the afternoon hours on January 5th, a low pressure system moved over the Central High Plains bringing light to heavy snow accumulations across portions of Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas through the pre-dawn hours of the 6th. In extreme Southwest Nebraska, snow accumulations varied from 5 to 8 inches. The highest accumulations occurred in Hitchcock and Dundy counties where the snowfall rate and occasional gusts around 30 mph produced reduced visibility below 1 mile at times.
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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 4, 4:25 PM MST, 18 hours 35 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Several bands of light to moderate snow moved generally south across Dundy County producing total snow accumulations ranging from 5 to 6 inches across the county. The highest snow accumulations were located near the town of Parks, Nebraska. Key impacts: snow packed roads.
Several bands of light to moderate snow moved generally south across Hitchcock County producing total snow accumulations ranging from 6 to 8 inches across the county. The highest snow accumulations were located near the towns of Trenton and Stratton, Nebraska. At times, the snowfall rate was heavy enough with winds gusting up to 30 mph to produce reduced visibility to a few miles. Key impacts: snow packed roads, blowing snow.
Several bands of light to moderate snow moved generally south across Red Willow County producing total snow accumulations ranging from 6 to 8 inches across the county. The highest snow accumulations were located near the city of McCook, Nebraska. At times, the snowfall rate was heavy enough to produce reduced visibility down to one-quarter mile. Key impacts: snow packed roads, reduced visibility.
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1003569, 1003570, 1003571.