Omaha Snow: Round Three

[senorpepr]

A little bit smaller amount on the forecast...

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BOONE-BURT-BUTLER-CASS-COLFAX-CUMING-DODGE-DOUGLAS-FREMONT IA-GAGE-
HARRISON IA-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LANCASTER-MADISON-MILLS IA-MONONA IA-
MONTGOMERY IA-NEMAHA-OTOE-PAGE IA-PAWNEE-PLATTE-POTTAWATTAMIE IA-
WASHINGTON-WAYNE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALBION...AUBURN...BEATRICE...BELLEVUE...
BLAIR...CLARINDA...COLUMBUS...COUNCIL BLUFFS...CRETE...FAIRBURY...
FALLS CITY...FREMONT...HARLAN...LINCOLN...NEBRASKA CITY...NORFOLK...
OMAHA...ONAWA...RED OAK...SEWARD...SIDNEY...TEKAMAH...WAYNE
327 PM CST WED FEB 4 2004

...A WINTER STORM WARNING CONTINUES THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS CONTINUED THE WINTER STORM
WARNING FOR MUCH OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA...WITH 6 TO 8
INCHES OF SNOW LIKELY.

A PROLONGED PERIOD OF SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY
NIGHT AS A WINTER STORM SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE PLAINS. SNOWFALL
TOTALS OF UP TO 8 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE FOR AREAS GENERALLY EAST OF A
LINE FROM FALLS CITY...TO OMAHA THROUGH ONAWA IOWA.  SLIGHTLY LESSER
TOTALS OF UP TO 6 INCHES ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE
AREA...INCLUDING LOCATIONS SUCH AS LINCOLN...COLUMBUS...BEATRICE AND
NORFOLK.

AS THE SNOWFALL BEGINS TO TAPER OFF THURSDAY EVENING...STRONG NORTH
TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL CAUSE BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF
SNOW THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT.

IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT...FOOD...AND WATER IN
YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE YOU BECOME STRANDED.

$$

[AirmaN]

Well they are wrong!

they better be... im hoping for 8 inches minimum!

[senorpepr]

I'm starting to think that it will be a miracle if we score even 6" This system really isn't that impressive for us...

[senorpepr]

Local mets still have hope....

[Guest]

I'm starting to think that it will be a miracle if we score even 6" This system really isn't that impressive for us...

Just arrived back from evening classes. Earlier this evening, I thought I would be driving through binding snow. :-? To my surprise , not a flake. I think they may need to undercut the amounts to about 4-6 inches and perhaps replace the warning with an advisory. Plus, the air just does not have the moist feeling to it; it is quite dry.

[Guest]

Local mets still have hope....

WOWT seems to have the most out-on-a-limb forecast team. 8-12? They are going to get pretty worried, I think overnight. Can't wait to hear ol' Patrick Powell's daybreak report. It might be enlightening!

[AirmaN]

look at the radar bro, it's starting to fill in we've had a pocket of dry air over us most of the day (Since i got home from school around noon) BTW, jim flowers says 8-12 inches for us.

[Guest]

look at the radar bro, it's starting to fill in we've had a pocket of dry air over us most of the day (Since i got home from school around noon) BTW, jim flowers says 8-12 inches for us.

There is no way, bro', with it's delayed start that we will see 12, albeit even 8, inches of snow. First of all, it is expected to be a long event with light to moderate (occaisionally heavy) snowfall. By the time the system is east of us come Friday, the NWS I think will win out with their 6-8 for the metro.

[senorpepr]

I'm surprised Jim Flowers is still going w/ 8-12. He claims that the system will slowing retrograde NW into the area tomorrow morning. That's when the event will kick off with the heaviest tomorrow evening.

I'm just not that impressed. Nothing has fallen except for a handfull of flurries. Furthermore, if you look at nat'l radar, the majority of the energy is in the Ozarks... well off to our east. On top of that, the tstms in the south is stealing the gulf moisture that we were depending on. Unless the systems slows and some decent moisture wrap around.

We'll see. If we're going to flirt with a record, might as well exercise "excellence in all we do." Let's scatter the record for most snow depth.

[senorpepr]

Well... now I'm starting to get reconvinced. It's possible to get a good deal of snow, but it'll be more of an event for tomorrow night. Airman... I'm sorry to say, but it looks like it school for you tomorrow. Friday... we'll have to see...

[AirmaN]

this is just the initial band coming through...the storm system is still coming out of Colorado...new snow will develope tomorrow, a much heavier snow, and be in by afternoon. What I'm thinking COULD happen, is that they cancel school just because of the trecherous driving conditions for after school..or they close early? not that it matters :| because i only have to go half a day anyways!

[senorpepr]

Straight of the OAX presses...

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BOONE-BURT-BUTLER-CASS-COLFAX-CUMING-DODGE-DOUGLAS-FREMONT IA-GAGE-
HARRISON IA-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LANCASTER-MADISON-MILLS IA-MONONA IA-
MONTGOMERY IA-NEMAHA-OTOE-PAGE IA-PAWNEE-PLATTE-POTTAWATTAMIE IA-
WASHINGTON-WAYNE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALBION...AUBURN...BEATRICE...BELLEVUE...
BLAIR...CLARINDA...COLUMBUS...COUNCIL BLUFFS...CRETE...FAIRBURY...
FALLS CITY...FREMONT...HARLAN...LINCOLN...NEBRASKA CITY...NORFOLK...
OMAHA...ONAWA...RED OAK...SEWARD...SIDNEY...TEKAMAH...WAYNE
935 PM CST WED FEB 4 2004

...A WINTER STORM WARNING CONTINUES THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS CONTINUED THE WINTER STORM
WARNING FOR MUCH OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA...WITH 6 TO 8
INCHES OF SNOW LIKELY BY THURSDAY EVENING. IN ADDITION TO THE
SNOW...PERIODS OF FREEZING DRIZZLE ARE ALSO POSSIBLE
TONIGHT...MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80.

A PROLONGED PERIOD OF SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT INTO THURSDAY
NIGHT AS A WINTER STORM SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE PLAINS. SNOWFALL
TOTALS OF UP TO 8 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE FOR AREAS GENERALLY ALONG AND
EAST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER VALLEY.  SLIGHTLY LESSER TOTALS OF UP TO
6 INCHES ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA...INCLUDING
LOCATIONS SUCH AS LINCOLN...COLUMBUS...BEATRICE AND NORFOLK.

AS THE SNOWFALL BEGINS TO TAPER OFF THURSDAY EVENING...STRONG NORTH
TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL CAUSE BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF
SNOW THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT.

IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT...FOOD...AND WATER IN
YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE YOU BECOME STRANDED. FREEZING PRECIPITATION CAN
RESULT IN HAZARDOUS TRAVEL. SLOW DOWN AND USE CAUTION ON ROADWAYS.

$$

[AirmaN]

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p ... koax.shtml

check tha tout...moderate band of snow lifting our way...ITS COLD OUT

[Guest]

NOWCAST from OMA

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IAZ069 - 079 - 080 - 090 - 091 - NEZ052 - 053 - 065>068 - 078 - 088>093 - 050430 -
CASS - DOUGLAS - FREMONT IA - GAGE - JEFFERSON - JOHNSON - LANCASTER - MILLS IA -
MONTGOMERY IA - NEMAHA - OTOE - PAGE IA - PAWNEE - POTTAWATTAMIE IA - RICHARDSON -
SALINE - SARPY - SEWARD -
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...AUBURN...BEATRICE...BELLEVUE...CLARINDA...
COUNCIL BLUFFS...CRETE...FAIRBURY...FALLS CITY...LINCOLN...
NEBRASKA CITY...OMAHA...RED OAK...SEWARD...SIDNEY
918 PM CST WED FEB 4 2004
.NOW...
...WINTER STORM WARNING THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...
OCCASIONAL LIGHT SNOW...AND PATCHY FREEZING DRIZZLE...CAN BE
EXPECTED TO CONTINUE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM SEWARD THROUGH OMAHA TO
HANCOCK IOWA THROUGH 1030 PM.  SNOW AMOUNTS OF ONLY A DUSTING
CAN BE EXPECTED...WITH ROADS BECOMING SLICK.  THE SNOW WILL INCREASE
IN INTENSITY LATER TONIGHT.
$$
JB

[senorpepr]

I'm glad I don't have to work until Saturday!

[AirmaN]

i have to work thursday AND saturday @_@

Hmmm...slick roads, with snow increasing overnight ...

[senorpepr]

Scott AFB in Belleville, IL issued this weather warning for Offutt AFB here in Bellevue, NE.........

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Number  02-A18

Valid    0800-05/0400L

** HEAVY SNOW WARNING **

Snow accumulation of 2" or more within a 12 hour period is expected at Offutt AFB during the valid time period.

Maximum accumulation expected is:  08 ".

[Guest]

I'm glad I don't have to work until Saturday!

Me, too, senorpepr!

Airman, sometimes !

[AirmaN]

Yes! I see snow flakes... or maybe those are just distat ufos?

[AirmaN]

Jim Flowers lowered the 8-12" to 8+"