Hurricane force winds, potential tornadoes and more: Weather on the way
A day of potentially record-breaking winds has arrived.
By News Channel Nebraska
NORFOLK, Neb. -- A day of potentially record-breaking winds has arrived.
According to meteorologist Morris Langworthy, it will be a widespread event with winds gusting 60-70mph. There could be an isolated 80mph gust.
"This will make travel hazardous, bring down trees and powerlines," Langworthy said.
"Expect the possibility of large areas of power outages. The National Weather Service is comparing this to the Christmas 2016 event."
Humidity values will be less than 12% in the southeast. The winds may cause power poles to spark and arch making the fire threat even higher.
Grant Otten from NPPD said Tuesday that the power utility is prepared, though there is nothing to respond to yet.
Record high temperatures are expected in the southeast as well. Record for Lincoln today is 64 set in 2002 with today's forecast being 71.
There are also winter weather advisories are out from Cherry County west to Dawes.
"I'm not worried about the accumulation but the whiteouts," Langworthy said.
The severe thunderstorm window will be from 2-7pm. The storms are expected to fire over Nebraska and be most severe on the Iowa side, Langworthy said.