Chadron, NE Weather Forecast
Dawes County, Nebraska
Seven-day outlook
34–67°F across the weekThe week runs between 36° and 67°, with today the warmest day of it. The second half leans cooling, and Tuesday is the coolest day in it. Monday is the wettest day, peaking near 77%. 4 of the 7 days stay dry.
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.
The written summaries on this page are generated from the forecast data above, not by a meteorologist. Each sentence is a reading of the same numbers you can see, and no forecaster has reviewed them.
About the Chadron forecast
Chadron sits at 42.8260°N, 103.0025°W in Dawes 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
- Dawes County
- Coordinates
- 42.8260°N, 103.0025°W
- Population
- 5,145 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 3.902 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Chadron, 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 Chadron?
The nearest Doppler radar is KUDX (Rapid City, SD), 90 miles to the N. 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 Chadron its center is about 8,200 ft above ground. At that range the beam overshoots the layer where severe weather organizes. The radar is describing the middle of the storm, not its base , which is why a warning for Chadron can look unsupported on the mosaic and still be right. Trust the warning over the picture.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KIEN · Pine Ridge Strip on the ASOS/AWOS network, 28 miles away. Far enough that "current conditions" for Chadron is an educated reading of somewhere else, worth knowing before you plan around a single temperature.
Beam height is the standard 4/3-earth approximation for the 0.5° scan and assumes normal refraction; it is where the center 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.
Forecasts near Chadron
- Hot Springs, SD47 mi
- Alliance, NE50 mi
- Scottsbluff, NE74 mi
- Gering, NE77 mi
- Torrington, WY80 mi
- Newcastle, WY93 mi
- Wheatland, WY113 mi
- Sidney, NE117 mi
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