Ord man receives prestigious National Weather Service award

ORD, Neb. - An Ord man is being recognized contributions to the National Weather Service.

This week, the NWS presented the John Campanius Holm award to Tom Klanecky, the official weather observer for the Ord area. The honor is the second highest award in the NWS Cooperative Observer Program. It is named for a Lutheran minister, who is generally believed to have been one of the first Americans to keep detailed climatological records, starting in 1644 in Delaware.

Klanecky volunteered to become the official cooperative observer for Ord in 1982 and has continuously provided daily observations of precipitation, snowfall and snow depth to the National Weather Service.

About one quarter of one percent of all observers can win the award. To be eligible, a candidate must have 20 years experience and meet all criteria detailed in the nomination package and perform those duties in an outstanding manner. If the nomination is selected at the regional level, it is then forwarded to the national level for consideration/selection.