Grand Island (airport): 7th-warmest September on record out of 120 years
Hastings (airport): 5th-warmest September on record out of 108 years
Kearney (airport): Tied with 1954 for the 2nd-warmest September on record out of 114 years
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| Sept. 2015 Total Rainfall Across The Local Area (AHPS analysis) |
...Sep. 2015 Summary For GRAND ISLAND AIRPORT...
...SEPTEMBER TEMPERATURES
NO DAILY TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE SET DURING SEPTEMBER 2015
AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE: 82.2 DEGREES (4.2 ABOVE NORMAL)
AVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURE: 59.1 DEGREES (6.8 ABOVE NORMAL)
AVERAGE MEAN TEMPERATURE: 70.7 DEGREES (5.6 ABOVE NORMAL)
(This was the 7th-warmest September on record out of 120 years dating to 1896)
HOTTEST HIGH TEMPERATURE: 96 DEGREES ON THE 2ND,3RD
COOLEST HIGH TEMPERATURE: 68 DEGREES ON THE 18TH,19TH
COOLEST LOW TEMPERATURE: 47 DEGREES ON THE 30TH
WARMEST LOW TEMPERATURE: 71 DEGREES ON THE 4TH,5TH
WARMEST WEEK BASED
ON AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE: 92.3 DEGREES FROM THE 1ST-7TH
WARMEST WEEK BASED
ON AVERAGE MEAN TEMPERATURE: 79.7 DEGREES FROM THE 1ST-7TH
COOLEST WEEK BASED
ON AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE: 76.4 DEGREES FROM THE 18TH-24TH
COOLEST WEEK BASED
ON AVERAGE MEAN TEMPERATURE: 66.4 DEGREES FROM THE 24TH-30TH
COOLEST WEEK BASED
ON AVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURE: 55.1 DEGREES FROM THE 7TH-13TH
...SEPTEMBER PRECIPITATION
NO DAILY PRECIPITATION RECORDS WERE SET DURING SEPTEMBER 2015
TOTAL MONTHLY PRECIPITATION: 3.33 INCHES (1.10 ABOVE NORMAL)
NUMBER OF DAYS WITH MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION (0.01 OR MORE): 11
WETTEST CALENDAR DAY: 1.27 INCHES ON THE 23RD
WETTEST TWO-DAY TOTAL: 1.35 INCHES ON THE 23RD-24TH
PRECIPITATION TOTALS AND DEPARTURES
FROM NORMAL FOR THE PAST 12 MONTHS:
MONTH PRECIP. DEPARTURE
OCT 2014 1.28 -0.58
NOV 2014 0.29 - 0.88
DEC 2014 0.76 +0.13
JAN 2015 0.47 -0.06
FEB 2015 0.70 +0.02
MAR 2015 0.16 -1.64
APR 2015 2.14 -0.39
MAY 2015 3.69 -0.72
JUN 2015 5.67 +1.37
JUL 2015 2.58 -0.82
AUG 2015 1.24 1.88
SEP 2015 3.33 +1.10
12-MTH TOTAL 22.31 -4.35
...OTHER SEPTEMBER WEATHER ELEMENTS
HIGHEST WIND GUST: 67 MPH FROM THE SOUTH ON THE THE 23RD
(OCCURRED DURING A THUNDERSTORM AT 938 PM CDT)
HIGH SURFACE SEA LEVEL PRESSURE: (INCHES/MERCURY) 30.26 ON THE 30TH
LOW SURFACE SEA LEVEL PRESSURE (INCHES/MERCURY): 29.65 ON THE 17TH
...SEPTEMBER 2015 NARRATIVE FOR
CENTRAL NEBRASKA REGIONAL AIRPORT...
AT CENTRAL NEBRASKA REGIONAL AIRPORT...TEMPERATURES WERE WELL-ABOVE
NORMAL AND RAINFALL WAS MODESTLY ABOVE NORMAL DURING SEPTEMBER 2015.
TEMPERATURES: WARM WEATHER WAS THE "BIG STORY" DURING THE MONTH...AS
GRAND ISLAND RECORDED ITS 7TH-WARMEST SEPTEMBER ON RECORD OUT OF 120
YEARS DATING BACK TO 1896. IT WAS THE WARMEST SEPTEMBER IN 17
YEARS...SINCE 1998. THE MEAN MONTHLY TEMPERATURE (BASED ON THE
AVERAGE OF DAILY HIGHS AND LOWS) WAS 70.7 DEGREES...AN IMPRESSIVE
5.6 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THE MAJORITY OF WEIGHT TOWARD THE WARM
MONTH WAS ATTRIBUTED TO LOW TEMPERATURES...WHICH AVERAGED A NOTABLE
6.8 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. FOR THE MONTH AS A WHOLE...25 OF THE 30
DAYS FEATURED AN ABOVE NORMAL MEAN TEMPERATURE. BY FAR THE HOTTEST
STRETCH OF THE MONTH WAS RIGHT OFF THE BAT...AS AS EACH OF THE FIRST
SIX DAYS FEATURED HIGHS RANGING FROM 92-96 DEGREES. IT HAD BEEN 25
YEARS (SINCE 1990) THAT SIX CONSECUTIVE SEPTEMBER DAYS REACHED 90+
DEGREES. LOW TEMPERATURES NEVER DROPPED BELOW 47 DEGREES THROUGH THE
ENTIRE MONTH...WHICH HAD ONLY HAPPENED ONE TIME PRIOR (IN 1998). THE
MOST PRONOUNCED BRIEF STRETCH OF COOLER WEATHER OCCURRED ON THE 18TH-
19TH WHEN BOTH DAYS FEATURED HIGHS OF 68 DEGREES. THE MOST
PRONOUNCED DAY-TO-DAY CHANGE IN HIGH TEMPERATURES WAS A 17-DEGREE
DROP FROM 85 DEGREES ON THE 17TH TO 68 ON THE 18TH.
RAINFALL/DROUGHT: THE MONTHLY TOTAL OF 3.33 INCHES WAS 149 PERCENT
OF THE 30-YEAR NORMAL OF 2.23". ALMOST EXACTLY HALF OF THIS MONTHLY
TOTAL FELL LATE IN THE MONTH BETWEEN THE 23RD-25TH...INCLUDING 1.27"
ON THE 23RD. DESPITE THE SOMEWHAT WETTER-THAN-NORMAL MONTH...THE
U.S. DROUGHT MONITOR CONTINUED TO INDICATE CATEGORY D0 ABNORMALLY
DRY CONDITIONS ACROSS MOST OF HALL COUNTY AT MONTH'S END (CONSIDERED
TO BE ONE CATEGORY BETTER THAN "TRUE" DROUGHT).
SEVERE WEATHER/FLOODING/HIGH WINDS: THERE WERE A FEW STRONG TO
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THE GRAND ISLAND CITY LIMITS DURING THE
MONTH. THE MOST NOTEWORTHY EVENT OCCURRED ON THE EVENING OF THE 9TH
AS AT LEAST TWO SEPARATE SEVERE STORMS TRACKED ACROSS MAINLY FAR
NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE CITY...RESULTING IN REPORTS OF HAIL UP TO
AROUND QUARTER SIZE AND A MEASURED WIND GUST OF 54 MPH AT THE
AIRPORT. A FEW WEEKS LATER ON THE EVENING OF THE 23RD...A STORM
PRODUCED A SEVERE-CRITERIA WIND GUST OF 67 MPH AT THE AIRPORT.
...Sep. 2015 Summary For HASTINGS AIRPORT...
(NOTE: TEMPERATURE RECORDS AT HASTINGS ARE BASED ON NWS COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER REPORTS (HASTINGS 4N) BETWEEN 1907 AND JUNE 1996...WITH
RECORDS SINCE JULY 1996 FROM THE AUTOMATED SENSOR AT HASTINGS
MUNICIPAL AIRPORT. PRECIPITATION RECORDS AT HASTINGS ARE BASED ON
NWS COOPERATIVE OBSERVER REPORTS (HASTINGS 4N) BETWEEN 1895 AND
MARCH 1998...WITH RECORDS SINCE APRIL 1998 FROM THE AUTOMATED
AIRPORT SENSOR.)
...SEPTEMBER TEMPERATURES
1 DAILY TEMPERATURE RECORD TIED DURING SEP. 2015:
- SEP. 4: TIED RECORD WARM MIN TEMPERATURE OF 72 (PREVIOUSLY 1925)
AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE: 83.3 DEGREES (5.9 ABOVE NORMAL)
AVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURE: 60.3 DEGREES (6.4 ABOVE NORMAL)
AVERAGE MEAN TEMPERATURE: 71.8 DEGREES (6.2 ABOVE NORMAL)
(This was the 5th-warmest September on record out of 108 years dating to 1907)
HOTTEST HIGH TEMPERATURE: 97 DEGREES ON THE 3RD
COOLEST HIGH TEMPERATURE: 70 DEGREES ON THE 18TH,19TH,29TH
COOLEST LOW TEMPERATURE: 47 DEGREES ON THE 30TH
WARMEST LOW TEMPERATURE: 73 DEGREES ON THE 5TH
WARMEST WEEK BASED
ON AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE: 92.9 DEGREES FROM THE 1ST-7TH
WARMEST WEEK BASED
ON AVERAGE MEAN TEMPERATURE: 80.8 DEGREES FROM THE 1ST-7TH
COOLEST WEEK BASED
ON AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE: 77.6 DEGREES FROM THE 24TH-30TH
COOLEST WEEK BASED
ON AVERAGE MEAN TEMPERATURE: 66.9 DEGREES FROM THE 24TH-30TH
COOLEST WEEK BASED
ON AVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURE: 56.3 DEGREES FROM THE 24TH-30TH
...SEPTEMBER PRECIPITATION
NO DAILY PRECIPITATION RECORDS WERE SET DURING SEPTEMBER 2015
TOTAL MONTHLY PRECIPITATION: 1.12 INCHES (1.44 BELOW NORMAL)
NUMBER OF DAYS WITH MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION (0.01 OR MORE): 10
WETTEST CALENDAR DAY: 0.38 INCHES ON THE 10TH
WETTEST 2-DAY STRETCH: 0.53 INCHES ON THE 9TH-10TH
PRECIPITATION TOTALS AND DEPARTURES
FROM NORMAL FOR THE PAST 12 MONTHS:
MONTH PRECIP. DEPARTURE
OCT 2014 1.76 -0.23
NOV 2014 0.23 -1.06
DEC 2014 0.54 -0.07
JAN 2015 0.77 +0.36
FEB 2015 0.34 -0.15
MAR 2015 0.20 -1.59
APR 2015 3.55 +0.99
MAY 2015 3.86 -0.71
JUN 2015 8.05 +4.25
JUL 2015 4.13 +0.39
AUG 2015 2.15 -1.15
SEP 2015 1.12 -1.44
12-MTH TOTAL 26.70 -0.41
...OTHER SEPTEMBER WEATHER ELEMENTS
HIGHEST WIND GUST: 40 MPH FROM THE SOUTH ON THE 15TH
OCCURRED AT 531 PM CDT)
HIGH SURFACE SEA LEVEL PRESSURE: (INCHES/MERCURY) 30.27 ON THE 11TH
LOW SURFACE SEA LEVEL PRESSURE (INCHES/MERCURY): 29.63 ON THE 17TH
...SEPTEMBER 2015 NARRATIVE
FOR HASTINGS MUNICIPAL AIRPORT...
AT HASTINGS MUNICIPAL AIRPORT...TEMPERATURES WERE WELL-ABOVE NORMAL
AND RAINFALL WAS WELL-BELOW NORMAL DURING SEPTEMBER 2015.
TEMPERATURES: WARM WEATHER WAS THE "BIG STORY" DURING THE MONTH...AS
HASTINGS RECORDED ITS 5TH-WARMEST SEPTEMBER ON RECORD OUT OF 108
YEARS DATING BACK TO 1907. IT WAS THE WARMEST SEPTEMBER IN 75
YEARS...SINCE 1940! THE MEAN MONTHLY TEMPERATURE (BASED ON THE
AVERAGE OF DAILY HIGHS AND LOWS) WAS 71.8 DEGREES...AN IMPRESSIVE
6.2 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THE MAJORITY OF WEIGHT TOWARD THE WARM
MONTH WAS ATTRIBUTED TO LOW TEMPERATURES...WHICH AVERAGED A NOTABLE
6.4 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. FOR THE MONTH AS A WHOLE...26 OF THE 30
DAYS FEATURED AN ABOVE NORMAL MEAN TEMPERATURE. BY FAR THE HOTTEST
STRETCH OF THE MONTH WAS RIGHT OFF THE BAT...AS AS EACH OF THE FIRST
SIX DAYS FEATURED HIGHS RANGING FROM 91-97 DEGREES. IT HAD BEEN 25
YEARS (SINCE 1990) THAT SIX CONSECUTIVE SEPTEMBER DAYS REACHED 90+
DEGREES. LOW TEMPERATURES NEVER DROPPED BELOW 47 DEGREES THROUGH THE
ENTIRE MONTH...WHICH HAD ONLY HAPPENED DURING FOUR PREVIOUS
SEPTEMBERS (2004,1998,1963,1923). THE MOST PRONOUNCED BRIEF STRETCH
OF COOLER WEATHER OCCURRED ON THE 18TH-19TH WHEN BOTH DAYS FEATURED
HIGHS OF 70 DEGREES. THE MOST PRONOUNCED DAY-TO-DAY CHANGE IN HIGH
TEMPERATURES WAS AN 18-DEGREE DROP FROM 88 DEGREES ON THE 28TH TO 70
ON THE 29TH.
RAINFALL/DROUGHT: THE MONTHLY TOTAL OF 1.12 INCHES WAS ONLY 44
PERCENT OF THE 30-YEAR NORMAL OF 2.56". NEARLY HALF OF THIS MONTHLY
TOTAL FELL EARLY IN THE MONTH BETWEEN THE 9TH-10TH...INCLUDING 0.38"
ON THE 10TH. GIVEN THAT THIS WAS THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE MONTH OF
BELOW NORMAL RAINFALL AT HASTINGS...IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE
THAT THE U.S. DROUGHT MONITOR CONTINUED TO INDICATE CATEGORY D0
ABNORMALLY DRY CONDITIONS ACROSS ALL OF ADAMS COUNTY AT MONTH'S END
(CONSIDERED TO BE ONE CATEGORY BETTER THAN "TRUE" DROUGHT).
SEVERE WEATHER/FLOODING/HIGH WINDS: THERE WERE A FEW HAIL STORMS
WITHIN AND NEAR HASTINGS DURING THE MONTH. ON THE EVENING OF THE
7TH...AN ISOLATED STORM DROPPED HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE ON THE FAR
SOUTH SIDE OF TOWN. ON THE AFTERNOON OF THE 10TH...HAIL UP TO NICKEL
SIZE WAS REPORTED WITHIN THE CITY. THEN ON THE MORNING OF THE
18TH...THE CITY EXPERIENCED A "CLOSE CALL" AS A PAIR OF SEVERE HAIL
STORMS TRACKED ONLY A FEW MILES NORTH OF TOWN...DROPPING SOME STONES
UP TO AROUND 2" IN DIAMETER. THE HIGHEST WIND GUST OF THE MONTH AT
THE AIRPORT...WHICH WAS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH A THUNDERSTORM...WAS
ONLY 40 MPH FROM THE SOUTH ON THE AFTERNOON OF THE 15TH.
...Sep. 2015 Summary For KEARNEY AIRPORT...
(NOTE: ALL DATA PRESENTED HERE IS FROM THE OFFICIAL NWS
COOPERATIVE OBSERVER LOCATED AT KEARNEY REGIONAL AIRPORT. AS A
RESULT...IT MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE UNOFFICIAL AUTOMATED
AIRPORT OBSERVATIONS (AWOS) PRESENTED IN ROUTINE DAILY AND MONTHLY
CLIMATE PRODUCTS. ALL TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION DATA REPORTED BY
THE OFFICIAL COOPERATIVE OBSERVER IS BASED ON A 24-HOUR PERIOD ENDING AT
7 AM...AND THUS DOES NOT CORRESPOND TO A MIDNIGHT-TO-MIDNIGHT
CALENDAR DAY PERIOD.)
...SEPTEMBER TEMPERATURES
AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE: 82.9 DEGREES (5.9 BELOW NORMAL)
AVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURE: 58.1 DEGREES (8.1 BELOW NORMAL)
AVERAGE MEAN TEMPERATURE: 70.5 DEGREES (7.0 BELOW NORMAL)
(This tied for the 2nd-warmest September on record out of 114 years dating to 1901)
WARMEST HIGH TEMPERATURE: 98 DEGREES REPORTED ON THE 16TH
(ACTUALLY OCCURRED ON THE 15TH)
COOLEST HIGH TEMPERATURE: 68 DEGREES REPORTED ON THE 30TH
(ACTUALLY OCCURRED ON THE 29TH)
COOLEST LOW TEMPERATURE: 48 DEGREES REPORTED ON THE 30TH
WARMEST LOW TEMPERATURE: 71 DEGREES REPORTED ON THE 6TH
...SEPTEMBER PRECIPITATION
TOTAL MONTHLY PRECIPITATION: 2.27 INCHES (0.20 ABOVE NORMAL)
NUMBER OF 24-HOUR PERIODS
WITH MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION (0.01 OR MORE): 9
HIGHEST 24-HOUR
RAINFALL ENDING AROUND 7 AM: 0.55 INCHES REPORTED ON THE 23RD
HIGHEST 48-HOUR
RAINFALL ENDING AROUND 7 AM: 1.03 INCHES REPORTED ON THE 24TH
PRECIPITATION TOTALS AND DEPARTURES
FROM NORMAL FOR THE PAST 12 MONTHS:
MONTH PRECIP. DEPARTURE
OCT 2014 0.99 -1.05
NOV 2014 0.06 -0.96
DEC 2014 0.69 +0.12
JAN 2015 0.05 -0.44
FEB 2015 0.49 -0.06
MAR 2015 0.07 -1.72
APR 2015 3.14 +0.91
MAY 2015 2.85 -1.33
JUN 2015 7.08 +3.15
JUL 2015 2.36 -0.92
AUG 2015 2.47 -0.61
SEP 2015 2.27 +0.20
12-MTH TOTAL 22.52 -2.71
...SEPTEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS/HIGH WINDS
ONLY ONE SEVERE STORM DIRECTLY IMPACTED KEARNEY DURING THE
MONTH...BUT IT WAS A RATHER SIGNFICANT ONE: DURING THE LATE
AFTERNOON HOURS OF THE 9TH...A SEVERE STORM TRACKED ACROSS PRIMARILY
NORTHERN AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE CITY DROPPING COPIOUS AMOUNTS
OF HAIL...SOME OF WHICH WAS UP TO AROUND GOLF BALL SIZE. NO
CONFIRMED TORNADOES OCCURRED WITHIN BUFFALO COUNTY DURING SEPTEMBER
2015.
ALTHOUGH NOT NECESSARILY THE TRUE PEAK GUST OF THE MONTH...THE
HIGHEST KNOWN WIND GUST AT THE AIRPORT WAS ONLY 40 MPH FROM THE
SOUTHEAST ON THE 15TH. (PLEASE NOTE THIS WAS NOT NECESSARILY THE
TRUE PEAK GUST OF THE MONTH...AS THIS AUTOMATED SYSTEM ONLY
TRANSMITS ROUTINE WIND OBSERVATIONS EVERY 20 MINUTES).
...Sep. 2015 Summary For ORD AIRPORT...
...SEPTEMBER TEMPERATURES
AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE: 81.3 DEGREES (3.2 ABOVE NORMAL)
AVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURE: 55.7 DEGREES (6.6 ABOVE NORMAL)
AVERAGE MEAN TEMPERATURE: 68.5 DEGREES (4.9 ABOVE NORMAL)
HOTTEST HIGH TEMPERATURE: 97 DEGREES ON THE 2ND
COOLEST HIGH TEMPERATURE: 67 DEGREES ON THE 18TH
COOLEST LOW TEMPERATURE: 37 DEGREES ON THE 19TH
WARMEST LOW TEMPERATURE: 71 DEGREES ON THE 5TH
...SEPTEMBER PRECIPITATION
TOTAL MONTHLY PRECIPITATION: 3.90 INCHES (1.46 ABOVE NORMAL)
NUMBER OF DAYS WITH MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION (0.01 OR MORE): 12
HIGHEST DAILY PRECIPITATION (CALENDAR DAY): 1.62 INCHES ON THE 23RD
HIGHEST 2-DAY PRECIPITATION TOTAL: 1.77 INCHES 23RD-24TH
PRECIPITATION TOTALS AND DEPARTURES
FROM NORMAL FOR THE PAST 12 MONTHS:
MONTH PRECIP. DEPARTURE
OCT 2014 1.14 -0.79
NOV 2014 0.06 -1.01
DEC 2014 1.58 +0.99
JAN 2015 0.17 -0.20
FEB 2015 0.57 +0.13
MAR 2015 0.03 -1.42
APR 2015 2.71 +0.12
MAY 2015 2.98 -0.83
JUN 2015 3.27 -0.85
JUL 2015 2.68 -0.29
AUG 2015 2.13 -1.03
SEP 2015 3.90 +1.46
12-MTH TOTAL 21.22 -3.72
...OTHER SEPTEMBER WEATHER ELEMENTS
HIGHEST WIND GUST: 43 MPH FROM THE NORTHEAST
(OCCURRED DURING THUNDERSTORMS AT 606 PM CDT)
HIGHEST SURFACE SEA LEVEL PRESSURE: 30.30 ON THE 11TH
LOWEST SURFACE SEA LEVEL PRESSURE: 29.64 ON THE 17TH
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