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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