NWS Omaha Weather Radar Is Down for Scheduled Maintenance

Powerful Winter Storm from the Upper Midwest into the Northeast; Severe Thunderstorms in the Midwest and Ohio Valley

A rapidly-intensifying storm is expected to bring heavy snow, blizzard conditions, and icing from the Upper Midwest through the Great Lakes and Northeast. Scattered severe thunderstorms may produce severe/damaging wind gusts and a couple of tornadoes across parts of the Midwest and lower Ohio Valley through the evening. Arctic air will expand across the central and southern U.S.. Read More >

...OMAHA WEATHER RADAR IS DOWN FOR SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE... The weather radar at the National Weather Service in Omaha/Valley is down for maintenance, thus no radar information is being transmitted. If severe weather is threatening during the radar outage, forecasters will use surrounding radar sites to interrogate storms and will still be able to provide timely and accurate warning services. The exact outage duration is unknown, but will likely be through 4pm today The surrounding radar sites serving parts of eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa include: Des Moines (KDMX) Kansas City (KEAX) Topeka (KTWX) Hastings (KUEX) North Platte (KLNX) (will be down for an upgrade until 3pm) Sioux Falls (KFSD) Visit radar.weather.gov to access alternate NOAA weather radar sites.