Satellite Image of Snow On the Ground in Western Nebraska, May 3, 2008

Note there are three satellite images below showing the snow cover rapidly disappear.

Note Lake McConaughy (black) is surrounded by snowcover.


1445 UTC, 9:45 AM CDST 


1731 UTC, 12:31 PM CDST 


2001 UTC, 3:01 PM CDST 

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The following information was compiled by Matt Masek of the North Platte, NWS:


Same satellite image with total snowfall reported (some of the snow would have melted by this image) (click on image to zoom)

Snowfall Reports
Location County
Inches
Big Springs 4W Deuel 6.0"
Ashby 1W Grant 6.0"
Wallace 9WSW Perkins 5.8"
Bingham 17S Garden 5.0"
Lisco 23NNW Garden 5.0"
Gordon 6N Sheridan 4.0"
Grant 10W Perkins 4.0"
Brandon 7SW Perkins 4.0"
Imperial 15NW Chase 4.0"
Ellsworth 15N Sheridan 4.0"
Oshkosh 8SW Garden 4.0"
Arthur 6N Arthur 4.0"
Mullen 18NW Cherry 3.0"
Whitman 5S Grant 3.0"
Tryon 18W McPherson 3.0"
Wellfleet 4ENE Lincoln 2.0"
North Platte 8S Lincoln 2.0"
Eustis 2NW Frontier 1.6"
Madrid Perkins 1.6"
Valentine Cherry 1.0"
Ogallala Keith 1.0"
Anselmo 2SE Custer 1.0"
Hamlet 7NW Hayes 1.0"
Wellfleet Lincoln 1.0"
North Platte Lincoln 0.6"
Stapleton 5W Logan 0.6"
Kingsley Dam Keith 0.5"
Maywood Frontier 0.5"
Mullen 15S Hooker Trace
 
Peak Wind Gust Reports
Location County
MPH
Gordon 10E (NEDOR) Cherry 74
Berea (NEDOR) Garden 66
Ellsworth (NEDOR) Sheridan 61
Ogallala Airport Keith 60
Rushville (NEDOR) Sheridan 60
Imperial Chase 60
Merriman (NEDOR) Cherry 58
Chappell (UPR) Deuel 57
Crescent Lake (FTS) Garden 57
Thedford (NEDOR) Thomas 57
Crescent Lake Garden 57
Valentine Cherry 56
Ash Hollow (NEDOR) Garden 54
Coumbe Bluff (UPR) Garden 54
Rose (NEDOR) Rock 53
Sutherland (NEDOR) Lincoln 53
Ainsworth Brown 53
Thedford Airport Thomas 52
Dunning Loup R (NEDOR) Blaine 52
Broken Bow Custer 52
Oshkosh East (UPR) Garden 52
Brewster (NEDOR) Blaine 49
Arcadia (NEDOR) Custer 48
Newport (NEDOR) Rock 46
Oneill Holt 46
Halsey (RAWS) Thomas 45
Dismal river (NEDOR) Thomas 45
Medicine Creek Lincoln 45
North Platte Lincoln 44