Winter Storm in Box Butte, Nebraska

Fourteen inches of snow with two to four foot drifts was reported seven miles northwest of Alliance. The body of a Berea woman was discovered late Tuesday afternoon in a field a half mile west of Highway 385. The woman succumbed to hypothermia after leaving her stranded vehicle to meet her son.

A vigorous Pacific low pressure system brought widespread heavy snowfall and northerly winds up to 50 mph as it moved across the central Rockies. Storm total snow accumulations up to two feet were observed across the western Nebraska Panhandle. The combination of falling snow and strong winds produced considerable drifting snow, which resulted in very low visibilities and snow packed roads. Numerous highways, including Interstate 80 from Sidney to the Wyoming border were closed.