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Severe potential Thursday for Omaha and the rest of Eastern Nebraska and Western Iowa

Severe potential Thursday for Omaha

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Severe potential Thursday for Omaha

Severe potential Thursday for Omaha

YOU COULD GO FROM UNO TO MIDTOWN TO DOWNTOWN. NO PROBLEM. THAT’S WAY CRAZY. WELL, TODAY WITH SOME GREAT BIKE RIDING WEATHER. AND TOMORROW WILL BE TWO. THE WINDS ARE GOING TO BE FAIRLY LIGHT FOR TOMORROW, WHICH WILL HELP. IT WILL BE VERY, VERY WARM. SO I GIVE IT A RANDY FACTOR OF SEVEN. BUT FOR A TIME, SAY THE MID PART OF THE DAY, YOU MIGHT BE THINKING TO YOURSELF BILL RANDBY, YOU’RE CRAZY. THIS IS A RANDOM FACTOR. TEN IT IS SPECTACULAR. IT IS NICE OUT HERE. FARTHER IN THE FUTURE. IT LOOKS COOLER THAN AVERAGE AGAIN IN LATE APRIL INTO EARLY MAY. POSSIBLY BETTER THAN AVERAGE, CERTAINLY FOR THE WEST AND THE SOUTH. THAT IS THE LONG RANGE OUTLOOK FROM THE CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER. THE CPC, THE 8 TO 14 DAY OUTLOOK 83 AND 38. NOT FUNNY. JUST JUXTAPOSE THE NUMBERS. BUT THAT’S A COLD START AND A REALLY WARM FINISH. NO PRECIPITATION. AND THIS MONTH WE’RE ABOVE AVERAGE. BUT IT’S BEEN DRY LATELY. AND WITH BREEZY CONDITIONS, A FIRE DANGER THAT IS PAPILLION, NEBRASKA. OUR FRIENDS AT SARPY COUNTY, THE COBALT CREDIT UNION, 76 SOUTH WIND NOW 20MPH. 76 IN OMAHA. THE WARM SPOT ANYWHERE ACROSS EASTERN NEBRASKA. WESTERN IOWA AND HAS THE STRONGEST BREEZE OUT OF THE SOUTH. ALTHOUGH A LOT OF SPOTS ARE 1520 MILES AN HOUR. RED OAK, NEBRASKA CITY 17. LINCOLN 17. QUIET. THEIR DUAL POLE SUPER DOPPLER SEVEN RADAR QUIET HERE ACROSS THE NATION’S MIDSECTION. JUST A FEW HIGH CLOUDS. BIG STORM. LOOK AT THAT THING. WOW. ROUNDUP WOUND UP OFF THE WEST COAST. AND AS IT MOVES ASHORE, PIECES OF ENERGY WILL BRING US, I THINK, RAIN AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES. THE LATEST EUROPEAN COMPUTER MODEL ALSO IN ON THIS FOR THURSDAY WITH SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER. EXPECT WE’RE PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE A SEVERE WEATHER WATCH AND SOME WARNINGS IN THE AREA. SO WE THINK THAT THURSDAY SEVERE WEATHER DAY TUESDAY AN AWFULLY NICE WEATHER DAY. SUNNY SKIES, LIGHTER WINDS, REALLY WARM TEMPERATURES. PRETTY QUIET FOR TUESDAY NIGHT. WE’LL GET SOME CLOUDS MAYBE WEDNESDAY MORNING, BUT SOME MORE SUNSHINE, ALTHOUGH WINDIER. WEDNESDAY TONIGHT LOW TEMPERATURE 58. PARTLY CLOUDY BREEZE OUT OF THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST. LOOKING AHEAD TO TOMORROW. SUNSHINE, SUNSHINE, SUNSHINE AND THE REALLY WARM TEMPERATURES IN THE AFTERNOON. BUT THE MORNING. DELIGHTFUL. FAIRLY LIGHT WINDS. COMFORTABLE DRY AIR. 83 ON WEDNESDAY. WINDY, SOME MORNING CLOUDS. SEVERE WEATHER DAY. THURSDAY AS THE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES PROBABLY WILL EXIST IN THE OMAHA METRO POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER THERE. FRIDAY A LOT COOLER. SATURDAY. A LOT COOLER. SUNDAY. WET AND COOL. SO DO YOU KNOW THAT TIMING YET FOR THURSDAY? KI

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Severe potential Thursday for Omaha with showers and storms likely in the afternoon and evening. Before that, sunny and warm weather is on the way for Tuesday.With a combined 50 years covering weather in Nebraska and Iowa, KETV NewsWatch 7 is Omaha’s Weather Leader. Led by Omaha’s Chief Meteorologist Bill Randby, the award-winning team of Sean Everson, Caitlin Harvey and Luke Vickery are focused on alerting you to upcoming severe weather and KETV’s exclusive live radar gives you a 3-minute advantage when storms strike.

Severe potential Thursday for Omaha with showers and storms likely in the afternoon and evening. Before that, sunny and warm weather is on the way for Tuesday.

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With a combined 50 years covering weather in Nebraska and Iowa, KETV NewsWatch 7 is Omaha’s Weather Leader. Led by Omaha’s Chief Meteorologist Bill Randby, the award-winning team of Sean Everson, Caitlin Harvey and Luke Vickery are focused on alerting you to upcoming severe weather and KETV’s exclusive live radar gives you a 3-minute advantage when storms strike.

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Omaha, US
1:54 pm, Apr 23, 2026
temperature icon 78°F
Partly cloudy
64 %
999 mb
17 mph
Wind Gust 20 mph
Clouds 75%
Visibility 10 mi
Sunrise 6:32 am
Sunset 8:13 pm

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