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River Flood Warning 29, NWS Omaha, NE

May 24, 2011Saunders County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this river flood warning at May 24, 2011, 8:21 PM CDT for Saunders County, Nebraska. It took effect at May 25, 2011, 12:53 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2011, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
In effect from: May 25, 2011, 12:53 PM CDT
Expired: May 25, 2011, 7:58 AM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Flood severity: Minor

County Saunders County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 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 Wahoo Creek at Ithaca (ITHN1). The gauge peaked at 10.36 ft at May 26, 2011, 6:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 17 ft
Minor stage: 19 ft
Moderate stage: 20.5 ft
Major stage: 23 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06804000, 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 24, 3:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 3:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 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 25, 4:01 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Cedar, Knox, Madison, Pierce and 3 more	12 hr
May 25, 11:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OAX	Dodge	5 hr
May 25, 11:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Butler, Colfax, Platte	6 hr
May 25, 1:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Richardson	3 hr
May 25, 3:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Richardson	6 hr
May 25, 5:47 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	OAX	Washington	3 days
May 25, 11:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Harrison	6 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 2011 Every river flood warning in 2011

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.