National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office

...RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE FOR MAY 16TH SET AT KEARNEY AND TIED AT HASTINGS...

On Monday morning, May 16th, 2011, the official NWS Cooperative Observer at Kearney Regional Airport reported a low temperature of 31 degrees. This breaks the previous record of 34 degrees, set in 1932. 

**PLEASE NOTE: All records for Kearney are based on the Cooperative Observer report. Although the automated sensor at the airport is used for various daily climatological reports, the official source of record data remains the NWS Cooperative Observer. **

Temperature records at Kearney date back to 1902.

On Monday morning, May 16th, 2011, automated ASOS equipment at Hastings Municipal Airport in Hastings tied a new minimum temperature record of 34 degrees. This tied the old May 16th record of 34 degrees set back in 1929, 1925, and 1923.

Temperature records at Hastings date back to 1907.

(*Please Note: All climate data presented here are preliminary and have not undergone final quality control by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Therefore, these data are subject to revision. Final and certified climate data can be accessed at: WWW.NCDC.NOAA.GOV)

This page was composed by the staff at the National Weather Service in Hastings, Nebraska.