2/19 - 2/20 Plains/Lakes CO Low Cutter

[Bryan1117]

4 minutes ago, jcwxguy said:

Lancaster will be added to warning 

Omaha/ Lincoln bullseye… LFG!!!

[Hoosier]

Tornado west of Bloomington, IN.  

[Husker-weather]

Jim Flowers posted the new Hirez model and has lincoln 6+ and omaha 8+

[Hoosier]

2 minutes ago, Hoosier said:

Tornado west of Bloomington, IN.  

Oh boy

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Tornado Warning
National Weather Service Indianapolis IN
701 PM EST Thu Feb 19 2026

The National Weather Service in Indianapolis has issued a

* Tornado Warning for...
  Central Monroe County in south central Indiana...
  Western Brown County in south central Indiana...

* Until 730 PM EST.

* At 701 PM EST, a confirmed large and extremely dangerous tornado
  was located near Bloomington, moving east at 45 mph.

  This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW!

  HAZARD...Damaging tornado.

  SOURCE...Emergency management confirmed tornado.

  IMPACT...You are in a life-threatening situation. Flying debris
           may be deadly to those caught without shelter. Mobile
           homes will be destroyed. Considerable damage to homes,
           businesses, and vehicles is likely and complete
           destruction is possible.

* Locations impacted include...
  Bloomington, Ellettsville, Yellowwood Lake, Indiana University,
  Woodville Hills, Lake Lemon, Unionville, and Whitehall.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

To repeat, a large, extremely dangerous and potentially deadly
tornado is on the ground. To protect your life, TAKE COVER NOW! Move
to a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy
building. Avoid windows. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in
a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect
yourself from flying debris.

&&

LAT...LON 3910 8664 3922 8668 3934 8635 3934 8633
      3910 8625
TIME...MOT...LOC 0001Z 258DEG 37KT 3916 8659

TORNADO...OBSERVED
TORNADO DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.50 IN

$$

[Bellona]

New MD out. 

[Hoosier]

Not as good of a signature on the Bloomington storm now.  May have still had a tornado into Bloomington but it looked better just west of there.

[jcwxguy]

Happy warning Lincoln 

[NH4NU]

Caught this about an hour ago on drive home just outside of Papillion. 

[Bellona]

We have switched over to sleet in Waterloo. I am not surprised from radar returns. 

[jcwxguy]

West o being hammered 

[MI Storm]

I dropped about 25 degrees in about 3 hours. From about 65 to 40.

[Grizzcoat]

two inch hour rates Des Moines!!!

 

METAR: KDSM3 min ago

moreMETAR KDSM 200054Z 35005KT 1/4SM R31/2400V4500FT +SN FZFG VV004 M01/M02 A2955 RMK AO2 SLP017 SNINCR 2/2 P0015 T10111017

[OttumwaSnomow]

What else would you expect from this drought HELL HOLE?

DRYSLOT!

[jcwxguy]

[jcwxguy]

Solid 6.5" here in Fremont so far 

[jcwxguy]

Dumping snow probably 1.5-2 an hour 

[Tom]

6 minutes ago, jcwxguy said:

Dumping snow probably 1.5-2 an hour 

What do you think the ratios are?

[jcwxguy]

It's not as heavy as I thought it wanna gonna be so best guess between 11-13:1

[Stacsh]

[jcwxguy]

Really gonna be curious to see what West Omaha ends up with. 

[Bryan1117]

2 hours ago, jcwxguy said:

West o being hammered 

Easily over 5” and its ripping here again… might make a run at 8” tonight.

[Bryan1117]

50 minutes ago, jcwxguy said:

A thing of absolute beauty!

[Bellona]

I can't even call it snow flakes right now here. More like globs of wet concrete. Ratios here must be pretty low right now. 

[bud2380]

Snow totals in central Iowa near Des Moines 

[gabel23]

1 hour ago, OttumwaSnomow said:

What else would you expect from this drought HELL HOLE?

DRYSLOT!

The same thing happened to me… I was in between bands and got dry, slotted and will probably wind up with half of what everybody else will end up with in the eastern part of the state.

[jcwxguy]

Snow 

 

[Madtown]

dry aur already in sw wi ..sure looks mor nw than on the models up thus way

[Grizzcoat]

15.5" N of Waterloo-

[Grizzcoat]

Most guidance did very well with this system inside 42 hours. Beyond 42 hours not good, but 42 and inside very good- best I can remember and that appears to be for nearly all reading. Sure you had an outlier one hour run of the HRRR or RAP- but the next hour it was back to what it had been before the outlier. Actually impressed with the Cam's this time around. 

 

[Grizzcoat]

Going to end up really close to 6" at KDSM.

5.9" official total as of 6AM

26.6" for the year -- about 1" below normal through the 20th. Had a great start to winter- maybe it can end the same way?  

[Hawkeye]

It appears a band of heavy snow swung through my area around 4am.  I don't know how I'll measure with all the blowing, but there might be a couple inches.

I got 0.59" of rain before it switched to sleet around 11pm.

[Tom]

Not a bad mid lat cyclone over SE WI...990mb SLP

[Minny_Weather]

Congrats to my Nebraska friends. It's been a long time coming. 

Only got a dusting here, but I'm not sure I really care. I checked out of winter during that two week stretch of 50-60+ highs that we just had.

[OttumwaSnomow]

As expected a MISS!

TRACE OF SNOW

TRACE OF PRECIP

.02" PRECIP IN FEB

.64" PRECIP IN 2026

17.0 snow for season most of which fell before Dec 15th.

Tilled my garden yesterday, first time ever in Feb. Not a speck of moisture. Snow and rain has missed me all winter. 

Oh and for you OMADOME folks in nebraska: omaha has a 16" precip deficit since summer 2021, Ottumwa Iowa has a 47" deficit in that time frame.

 

 

[Bryan1117]

Finished with a storm total of 8" in my backyard in Southwest Omaha... it's not too often that we overperform here and to more than double our season snowfall in the span of 6 hours is just wild (even though that really wasn't too hard to do with a seasonal total of around 6" going into yesterday). The storm tracked absolutely perfect for the Omaha and Lincoln metro areas. Time to dig out and enjoy the wintry wonderland outside! 

OttumwaSnomow... just ouch man - seems like you get dry slotted every darn time (even more than us and your numbers prove it). You are way overdue for something at this point! 

[Tom]

13 minutes ago, Bryan1117 said:

Finished with a storm total of 8" in my backyard in Southwest Omaha... it's not too often that we overperform here and to more than double our season snowfall in the span of 6 hours is just wild (even though that really wasn't too hard to do with a seasonal total of around 6" going into yesterday). The storm tracked absolutely perfect for the Omaha and Lincoln metro areas. Time to dig out and enjoy the wintry wonderland outside! 

OttumwaSnomow... just ouch man - seems like you get dry slotted every darn time (even more than us and your numbers prove it). You are way overdue for something at this point! 

I was mesmerized at how perfect the radar signature looked over NE and into IA...what a perfect, last minute + trend of a winter storm for your region of the heartland that has been missed.  I was certainly surprised myself as to how this system just kept looking better each and every day over the past 3 days.  Congrats and enjoy the winter wonderland and cold temps the next couple days!

[Tom]

@gimmesnowsure did plan accordingly for his trip up to Yooper land!  That N/S band and upper level wave is going to rip snow and not move at all over your area for 24-36 hours.

[Hawkeye]

My total is 2.2".

[OttumwaSnomow]

[jcwxguy]

6-8 across Fremont, same for Lincoln, south Lincoln 9"