Extreme Cold/Wind Chill — Eastern Cherry, Nebraska

2025-02-18 to 2025-02-20 · Eastern Cherry, Nebraska

Event narrative

Across eastern Cherry County, a long duration of dangerous wind chill values of 30 below or colder began during the early morning hours on January 18th through the early morning hours on February 20th. Although winds remained generally light throughout the event, winds combined to produce a lowest wind chill of 48 below zero at the Valentine ASOS at 1252 am CST on February 20th and 42 below zero at 752 am CST on February 19th.

Wider weather episode

An arctic airmass brought an extended period of bitter cold temperatures as cold as 20 to 34 below zero and dangerous wind chills as low as 30 below to around 50 below zero to all of western and north central Nebraska. Although winds remained generally light throughout the event, winds combined to produce a long duration of dangerous wind chills beginning during the early morning hours on February 18th through the early morning hours on February 20th. The lowest wind chill values from 40 below to 52 below zero occurred during early morning hours on February 19th and again during the early morning hours on February 20th.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1248337. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.