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River Flood Warning 2, NWS Omaha, NE

February 29, 2008Cuming County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this river flood warning at Feb 29, 2008, 8:42 PM CST for Cuming County, Nebraska. It took effect at Mar 1, 2008, 1:00 AM CST. It was in force for 6 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 29, 2008, 8:42 PM CST (02:42 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 1, 2008, 1:00 AM CST
Expired: Mar 6, 2008, 10:03 PM CST
In force: 6 days
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Flood severity: Minor

County Cuming County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 Elkhorn River at West Point (WPNN1). The gauge peaked at 12.90 ft at Mar 2, 2008, 11:00 PM CST.

Action stage: 10 ft
Minor stage: 12 ft
Moderate stage: 16 ft
Major stage: 17 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06799350, 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 Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Feb 29, 3:09 PM CST, 5 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 29, 3:09 PM CST, 5 hours 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 29, 5:31 PM CST, 3 hours 11 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
531 PM CST FRI FEB 29 2008

IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-
042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-011345-
MONONA-HARRISON-SHELBY-POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-FREMONT-
PAGE-KNOX-CEDAR-THURSTON-ANTELOPE-PIERCE-WAYNE-BOONE-MADISON-
STANTON-CUMING-BURT-PLATTE-COLFAX-DODGE-WASHINGTON-BUTLER-
SAUNDERS-DOUGLAS-SARPY-SEWARD-LANCASTER-CASS-OTOE-SALINE-
JEFFERSON-GAGE-JOHNSON-NEMAHA-PAWNEE-RICHARDSON-
531 PM CST FRI FEB 29 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST
IOWA...WEST CENTRAL IOWA...EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...NORTHEAST
NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND SATURDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT OR SATURDAY.

GRIFFIS

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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.