textproduct: North Platte

KEY MESSAGES

- Chance of patchy fog early Thursday morning across portions of western and north central Nebraska

- Precipitation chances increase Friday afternoon through the evening hours

- Another, stronger system will move in to the Central Plains early next week, bringing a chance for precipitation and strong winds

SHORT TERM /THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT/

Issued at 358 PM CDT Wed Oct 28 2026

The main concern in the short term will again be the chance for fog to develop in the overnight. At this time fog looks to be patchy, with the greatest potential of patchy fog development across southwest Nebraska into North Central Nebraska where dew points will be in the upper 30s and lows will be in the upper 30s as well. This area will also see winds diminish this evening becoming light and variable overnight into early Thursday morning. Across western Nebraska winds will be slightly stronger around 5 to 10 mph and should keep enough overnight mixing to keep fog from forming. As for high temperatures on Thursday, expect temperatures to remain in the low 60s, however there is the potential for stratus to form Thursday morning and could linger through the late morning, which could keep high temperatures slightly cooler across southwest Nebraska.

LONG TERM /FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/

Issued at 358 PM CDT Wed Oct 28 2026

Still continue to expect an active weather pattern setting up heading into the weekend and early next week. A shortwave trof will move in Friday, with increasing moisture out ahead of the trof, will see the potential for rain showers and maybe an isolated chance for a thunderstorm late Friday afternoon into Friday overnight, before tapering Saturday morning. Expect Saturday afternoon and evening to remain mostly dry before focus turns on the next system. Still continue to see discrepancies between the models with one model brining in the system as more of a stronger closed low and the other bringing it in more open wave. Continue to have low confidence in this time as to the exact track of the storm, but the potential exist for gusty winds and precipitation late Sunday through Tuesday.

AVIATION /18Z TAFS THROUGH 18Z THURSDAY/

Issued at 1240 PM CDT Wed Oct 28 2026

Lingering stratus will lift by mid afternoon and will see mostly clear skies with a few high clouds, but VFR conditions. Will see VFR conditions continue this evening, then there is the potential there could be some patchy fog that develops, at this time the greatest potential for fog development will be across far southwest Nebraska and south of I-80, but can't rule out patchy fog developing further north given the low level moisture and light winds tonight. As for winds the remainder of this afternoon, will remain breezy out of the north to northwest around 10 to 15 kts and gusts up to 25 kts, then becoming light and variable tonight through the early morning hours Thursday.

LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

None.