Broken Bow, NE Weather Forecast

Custer County, Nebraska

Conditions now · Sun, 5:17 PM CDT

58°FDewpoint 54°FMostly cloudy

Measured at KBBW · Broken Bow Muni, NE · airport · 2.2 mi away · 29 minutes ago

Broken Bow, NE at Sun, 5:17 PM CDT: 58°F and mostly cloudy, measured at KBBW (Broken Bow Muni, NE) 2.2 mi away, 29 minutes ago. Rest of today: high 66°F, low 59°F, 10% chance of rain. No active National Weather Service alerts for this location.

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Hour by hourTemperatureChance of rain

11 AMMostly cloudy59°F7%

12 PMOvercast60°F7%

1 PMMostly cloudy61°F4%

2 PMMostly cloudy63°F5%

3 PMOvercast64°F9%

4 PMOvercast65°F10%

5 PMMostly cloudy66°F5%

6 PMOvercast66°F2%

7 PMMostly cloudy63°F4%

8 PMMostly cloudy62°F5%

9 PMOvercast61°F4%

10 PMMostly cloudy60°F5%

Seven-day outlook

54–85°F across the week

TodaySep 13Overcast · 10% chance of rain59°F / 66°F

MonSep 14Mostly cloudy · 13% chance of rain59°F / 85°F

TueSep 15Scattered rain · 49% chance of rain56°F / 71°F

WedSep 16Rain likely · 57% chance of rain54°F / 72°F

ThuSep 17Scattered rain · 50% chance of rain61°F / 72°F

FriSep 18Scattered rain · 52% chance of rain61°F / 76°F

SatSep 19Partly cloudy · 20% chance of rain58°F / 70°F

SunSep 20Partly cloudy · 16% chance of rain54°F / 60°F

Forecasts come from the National Weather Service's own computer models, and current conditions from the nearest reporting weather station. Both are served through the weather API. A forecast is guidance, not a warning, and anything the Weather Service has actually issued is on the live map.

About the Broken Bow forecast

Broken Bow sits at 41.4052°N, 99.6408°W in Custer County, Nebraska. The forecast above is drawn for that point from the National Weather Service's own computer models: a seven-day outlook, and a finer-grained one covering the next eighteen hours where it reaches, and the radar and alert panels show what the Weather Service has out over the area right now.

County: Custer County
Coordinates: 41.4052°N, 99.6408°W
Population: 3,542 · 2023 estimate
Land area: 2.02 sq mi

Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Broken Bow, and the forecast is for that location, not for every address inside the city limits, and a large city can have real weather differences from one side to the other.

How well can the network see Broken Bow?

The nearest Doppler radar is KLNX (North Platte, NE), 62 miles to the NW. A WSR-88D's lowest routine scan sits half a degree above horizontal, and the earth curves away beneath it, so by the time that beam reaches Broken Bow its centre is about 4,700 ft above ground. That is far enough out that the beam has climbed above the lowest few thousand feet. Storm structure aloft is visible; a shallow circulation near the ground may not be, and a warning here can arrive before anything looks dramatic on the radar picture.

The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KBBW · Broken Bow Muni on the ASOS/AWOS network, 2.2 miles away. Close enough that its readings are, for practical purposes, the conditions in town.

Beam height is the standard 4/3-earth approximation for the 0.5° scan and assumes normal refraction; it is where the centre of the beam is, not its edges, and unusual temperature profiles bend it. Radar siting from the NWS WSR-88D network, station positions from the Nebraska observing network as of this build.

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