Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Omaha, NE

Issued

May 24, 2004, 4:34 PM CDT (21:34 UTC)

Expired

May 24, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT

In force

4 hr

Issued by

NWS Omaha, NE

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Pottawattamie County, IA, Douglas County, NE

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000 
WGUS53 KOAX 242136
FFWOAX
IAC155-NEC055-250130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
434 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF OMAHA
  POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST IOWA

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 430 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AN EAST WEST AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS
  WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS DOUGLAS AND POTTAWATTAMIE
  COUNTIES WITH ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...CARSON...CARTER LAKE...COUNCIL
BLUFFS...CRESCENT...HANCOCK...MACEDONIA...

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND
UNDERPASSES. OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS MAY ALSO FLOOD.

MOST FLOOD FATALITIES ARE VEHICLE RELATED. AS LITTLE AS SIX INCHES OF
WATER MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. TWO FEET OF
RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES...THIS INCLUDES PICKUPS
AND SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES.

LAT...LON 4151 9535 4117 9536 4119 9633 4139 9640
          4140 9594

$$

FOBERT

000 
WGUS73 KOAX 242220
FFSOAX
IAC155-NEC055-250215-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
516 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR UNTIL 900 PM CDT...

AT 507 PM CDT SEVERE FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN OMAHA AT SADDLECREEK 
AND FARNAM WITH 3 TO 4 FEET OF WATER OVER THE ROAD. CARS WERE 
REPORTED FLOATING WITH WATER UP TO THE WINDOWS. RESCUE UNITS HAVE 
BEEN DISPATCHED.

IN POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY IOWA...WATER WAS REPORTED OVER THE ROAD AT 
MILE MARKER 22 ON INTERSTATE 80 BETWEEN UNDERWOOD AND NEOLA.

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHWEST IOWA 
AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA.

DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. AS LITTLE AS SIX
INCHES OF WATER MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. THIS
INCLUDES PICKUP TRUCKS AND SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT...OR HAS A HIGH
PROBABILITY OF OCCURRING.

LAT...LON 4151 9524 4117 9527 4119 9631 4139 9629

$$

FOBERT

000 
WGUS73 KOAX 242242
FFSOAX
IAC155-NEC055-242330-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
537 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR UNTIL 900 PM CDT...

AT 537 PM CDT FLOODING CONTINUED ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN DOUGLAS 
COUNTY AND WESTERN POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY. RAINFALL BETWEEN 3.5 AND 4 
INCHES WAS REPORTED IN EASTERN PARTS OF OMAHA.

AREA CREEKS AFFECTED INCLUDE...MOSQUITO CREEK AND HENCHAL CREEK IN IOWA
AND THE BIG PAPIO IN DOUGLAS COUNTY.

NEARLY HALF OF ALL FLOOD FATALITIES ARE VEHICLE RELATED. TWO FEET OF
RUSHING WATER CAN CARRY AWAY MOST VEHICLES...INCLUDING PICKUPS AND
SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT...OR HAS A HIGH
PROBABILITY OF OCCURRING.

LAT...LON 4147 9563 4120 9562 4121 9606 4138 9610
          4138 9593

$$

JR

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The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.