Drought in Knox, Nebraska

Extreme (D3) drought conditions persisted across Knox County throughout the month of April. However, the area did observe a slight improvement in areal coverage, with the extreme drought shrinking from 100 percent to 94 percent by the end of the month. The cooperative observer at Orchard 9NNE recorded 0.93 inches of precipitation (2.00 inches below average). The CoCoRaHS observers at Crofton 4.4 WNW and Crofton 0.7 NNW recorded 2.22 and 2.36 inches of precipitation, respectively. These values were 1.00 and 0.77 inches below average.

Severe (D2) to extreme (D3) drought conditions continued across portions of eastern Nebraska through the month of April. However, there was some slight improvement through the month with only small departures from average precipitation in many locations.