Live National Weather Service alerts, NEXRAD weather radar, USGS river and stream gauges, Storm Prediction Center convective outlooks, Local Storm Reports, 5-day forecast, air quality, and severe-weather notifications for Dakota County, NE (FIPS 31043) in Nebraska. Free, no login, no ads.
Dakota County, NE is one of the counties of Nebraska covered by BloomWX. Dakota County, NE has a population of approximately 21,308 (2022 estimate, US Census Bureau). The county covers 264.3 square miles of land area. The county seat is Dakota City.
South Sioux City, Dakota City, Homer.
Dakota County, NE is served by the National Weather Service FSD forecast office for warnings, watches, advisories, and decision-support services. The same office produces the Hazardous Weather Outlook, Area Forecast Discussion, and DSS briefing packets you'll see on the BloomWX dashboard for this county.
BloomWX also covers the surrounding counties: Woodbury County, IA, Thurston County, NE, Union County, SD, Dixon County, NE.
BloomWX is a free weather operations dashboard for SKYWARN storm spotters, emergency management volunteers, ham radio nets, and anyone in Dakota County, NE who needs the official NWS data without the consumer-app cruft. Data is pulled directly from weather.gov and refreshes every 60 seconds. Sources: National Weather Service, Storm Prediction Center, USGS Water Data, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Open-Meteo (Air Quality), and the Citizen Weather Observer Program.
Read the BloomWX learn library for beginner-friendly explainers on every dashboard surface, including SPC convective outlooks (TSTM/MRGL/SLGT/ENH/MDT/HIGH), NEXRAD radar, USGS flood gauges, and WPC surface analysis charts. See all Nebraska county weather dashboards on BloomWX.