Severe storms move out, colder air moves in

An active Tuesday afternoon started with many scattered thunderstorms in southwest and central Nebraska. Then later, a line of storms moved through with the cold front bringing strong winds throughout eastern Nebraska.

Below is a summary of those reports throughout the state from Tuesday, as of Wednesday morning.

The highest wind speed came from Jefferson County, as emergency management recorded an 82-mph wind gust through Fairbury. This downed a lot of trees in the area, but strong winds were noted in many other spots as well.

In the afternoon as storms were growing and isolated, some produced some hail around golf-ball size, if not a little bigger. Thankfully as these storms progressed east, hail became less of a factor.

The plan going forward is to welcome Fall back, feeling more like the season as temperatures keep dropping. For today, temperatures have already started 10-20° cooler, as we cleared out the cloud cover overnight. We may see some cloud cover return by the afternoon, so mostly sunny to partly cloudy conditions can be expected.

What has come to be a season-altering cold front has left just about everyone with seasonable temperatures for Wednesday. 60s and 70s are slated for locations across Nebraska by Wednesday afternoon for highs.

By Thursday, we’ll see more of the same. Seasonable weather anticipated, with a bit cooler air north and west as this cold air mass settles into the region. A second, weaker cold front that is not expected to bring much of anything (small rain chance) will be what drops high temperatures a bit more for Friday.

In fact, by Friday night, we are anticipating the first frost overnight into Saturday morning. Relatively quiet pattern coming up too, so we will stay mostly dry heading toward the middle of October.

Meteorologist Jessica Blum 
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