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River Flood Warning 84, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this river flood warning at Jul 16, 2008, 6:42 AM CDT for Saline County, Nebraska. It took effect at Jul 16, 2008, 9:20 AM CDT. It was in force for 70 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 2008, 6:42 AM CDT (11:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 16, 2008, 9:20 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2008, 7:04 AM CDT
- In force
- 70 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Saline County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Turkey Creek near Wilber (WLBN1).
- Action stage
- 11 ft
- Minor stage
- 12.5 ft
- Moderate stage
- 16 ft
- Major stage
- 21 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06881200, 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 Jul 16, 2:59 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:59 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 15, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Boone, Madison, Pierce, Platte | 36 min |
| Jul 15, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge, Saunders | 49 min |
| Jul 15, 7:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Dodge | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Colfax, Madison, Platte, Stanton | 24 min |
| Jul 15, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Colfax, Platte | 30 min |
| Jul 15, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Platte | 28 min |
| Jul 15, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Colfax, Madison, Platte, Stanton | 17 min |
| Jul 15, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Colfax, Dodge, Platte, Saunders, Seward | 47 min |
| Jul 15, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge, Douglas, Saunders, Washington | 43 min |
| Jul 15, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt | 26 min |
| Jul 15, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Douglas, Lancaster, Otoe, Saline, Sarpy and 2 more | 62 min |
| Jul 15, 9:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Saunders | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 9:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OAX | Douglas, Sarpy | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Johnson, Lancaster, Otoe | 48 min |
| Jul 15, 10:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Cass, Douglas, Sarpy | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Otoe, Sarpy | 45 min |
| Jul 16, 6:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | OAX | Saline, Seward | 12 hr |
| Jul 16, 9:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | OAX | Saline | 5 days |
| Jul 16, 9:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | OAX | Seward | 23 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.