Extreme Cold/Wind Chill in Grant, Nebraska

Across Grant County, a long duration of dangerous wind chill values of 30 below or colder at times began during the evening hours on January 12th through the morning hours on January 16th. Northerly winds as high as 20 to 35 mph occurred at times during the event. The winds combined to produce a lowest wind chill of 43 below at a mesonet site located 5 miles northeast of Whitman at 1000 pm MST on January 13th. The nearby Thedford AWOS also record at lowest wind chill of 46 below at 735 am January 13th.

Two consecutive arctic airmasses brought an extended period of bitter cold temperatures as cold as 10 below to 25 below zero and dangerous wind chills as low as 30 below to around 50 below zero to all of western and north central Nebraska. Strong northerly winds of 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 40 mph occurred during the first half of the event from the evening hours on January 12th through the afternoon hours on January 13th. The winds combined to produce a long duration of dangerous wind chills beginning during the evening hours on January 12th through the morning hours on January 16th. The lowest wind chill values from 35 below to 53 below occurred between the morning hours on January 13th through the morning hours on January 14th.