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River Flood Warning 16, NWS Omaha, NE

May 15, 2011Butler County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this river flood warning at May 15, 2011, 6:56 AM CDT for Butler County, Nebraska. It took effect at May 15, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 15, 2011, 6:56 AM CDT (11:56 UTC)
In effect from: May 15, 2011, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 15, 2011, 9:26 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Flood severity: Minor

County Butler County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:59 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 Big Blue River at Surprise (SRPN1).

Action stage: 6 ft
Minor stage: 7 ft
Moderate stage: 10 ft
Major stage: 12 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06879900, 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 May 15, 3:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 15, 3:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 3:33 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cedar, Colfax and 10 more	16 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.