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Critical Fire Weather Persists in the Southern Plains; Severe Weather and Heavy Rain Expected Over the Weekend

High winds and very dry conditions will continue to produce elevated to critical fire weather conditions over portions of New Mexico and far western Texas through Saturday. Heavy snow will continue in the Central Rockies Heavy rain, flooding, and severe thunderstorm risks increase from the Southern Plains into the Lower Missouri Valley this weekend. Read More >

The (606) 666-8000 National Weather Service (NWS) phone number with access to observational, forecast, and climate information has been repaired. We apologize for any inconvenience that this outage has caused.

The following temporary phone number for the current observations, forecasts, and climate information will remain active for a few more days to ensure stability of the (606) 666-8000 line:

(606) 604-5055