Minden, NE Weather Forecast
Kearney County, Nebraska
Seven-day outlook
36–65°F across the weekThe week runs between 43° and 65°, with Monday the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Monday is the wettest day, peaking near 83%. 3 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 Minden forecast
Minden sits at 40.4982°N, 98.9670°W in Kearney 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
- Kearney County
- Coordinates
- 40.4982°N, 98.9670°W
- Population
- 3,136 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 2.203 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Minden, 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 Minden?
The nearest Doppler radar is KUEX (Hastings, NE), 30 miles to the ESE. 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 Minden its center is about 1,800 ft above ground. That is about as close as radar coverage gets in the United States: the lowest scan is still near the ground when it reaches Minden, so low-level rotation and the leading edge of a gust front show up on it. Minden is closer to its radar than 70% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KEAR · Kearney Rgnl on the ASOS/AWOS network, 15 miles away. Far enough that "current conditions" for Minden 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 Minden
- Kearney, NE15 mi
- Holdrege, NE22 mi
- Hastings, NE31 mi
- Grand Island, NE43 mi
- Lexington, NE45 mi
- Aurora, NE56 mi
- Cozad, NE59 mi
- Central City, NE66 mi
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