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River Flood Warning 5, NWS Hastings, NE

May 24, 2008Harlan County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this river flood warning at May 24, 2008, 5:05 PM CDT for Harlan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 3 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2008, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2008, 9:56 PM CDT
In force: 3 days
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Flood severity: Minor

County Harlan County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Republican River near Orleans (ORNN1). The gauge peaked at 13.13 ft at May 26, 2008, 2:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 8 ft
Minor stage: 9 ft
Moderate stage: 11 ft
Major stage: 13 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06844500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at May 24, 4:56 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 4:56 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 7:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Gosper	24 hr
May 23, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	66 min
May 23, 9:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Kearney, Phelps	14 hr
May 23, 10:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Thayer	47 hr
May 24, 2:34 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Hall, Hamilton, Howard, Merrick, Nance, Polk	5 days
May 24, 4:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	GID	Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Greeley, Hall, Hamilton and 8 more	14 hr
May 24, 8:23 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Sherman, Valley	36 hr
May 23, 8:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Rooks	63 min
May 23, 9:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Rooks	47 min
May 23, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	39 min
May 23, 9:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	46 min
May 23, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Smith	40 min
May 23, 10:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Osborne, Smith	35 min
May 23, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks	28 min
May 23, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	37 min
May 23, 10:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Osborne	47 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.