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River Flood Warning 5, NWS Omaha, NE

May 28, 2013Saline County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this river flood warning at May 28, 2013, 3:53 AM CDT for Saline County, Nebraska. It took effect at May 28, 2013, 7:03 AM CDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 2013, 3:53 AM CDT (08:53 UTC)
In effect from: May 28, 2013, 7:03 AM CDT
Expired: May 31, 2013, 7:57 PM CDT
In force: 4 days
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
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 08:55 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 May 28, 12:05 AM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 12:05 AM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 4:45 PM CDT, 11 hours 8 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
445 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2013

IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-
042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-281145-
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-
445 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA
AND WESTERN IOWA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND TUESDAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW SEVERE WITH HEAVY RAIN...WILL
LIKELY MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE
HAIL ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS...BUT ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE
THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF A SEWARD TO
PLATTSMOUTH TO SHENANDOAH LINE.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE NEAR OR NORTH OF A WARM
FRONT OVER NORTHERN KANSAS AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA THROUGH
EARLY EVENING...WHILE OTHER THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OVER WESTERN
NEBRASKA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OR DEVELOP EAST ACROSS THE
REGION THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. AS MENTIONED ABOVE...ANY OF
THE STORMS TONIGHT COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL BUT
AN INCREASING LOW LEVEL JET OVER KANSAS AND POSSIBLY INTO SOUTHERN
NEBRASKA COULD INTERACT WITH THE ACTIVITY BRINGING THE TORNADO
THREAT TO THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE REGION. DUE TO FAVORABLE
MOISTURE OVER THE PLAINS...ANY OF THE STORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE
LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

PERIODS OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY OF
THIS WEEK. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ARE
POSSIBLE FROM ANY OF THE ACTIVITY WHICH WILL FAVOR THE LATE
AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT HOURS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND SOUTHWEST OF NEBRASKA CITY TO
LINCOLN TO SEWARD LINE.

CHERMOK

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 27, 11:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 11:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 12:27 AM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 12:40 AM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 12:42 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
1242 AM CDT TUE MAY 28 2013

NEZ066-078-089-280645-
GAGE NE-SALINE NE-LANCASTER NE-
1242 AM CDT TUE MAY 28 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN GAGE...CENTRAL SALINE
AND SOUTHERN LANCASTER COUNTIES UNTIL 145 AM CDT...

AT 1240 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF WILBER...OR 25 MILES NORTHWEST
OF BEATRICE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CRETE...WILBER...HICKMAN...FIRTH...ADAMS...CORTLAND...HALLAM...
CLATONIA...PANAMA AND SPRAGUE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 4044 9721 4061 9720 4067 9648 4038 9648
TIME...MOT...LOC 0540Z 270DEG 30KT 4050 9712

DERGAN

Special weather statement, May 28, 12:56 AM CDT, 2 hours 57 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 27, 7:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Jefferson, Saline	38 min
May 27, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Jefferson, Saline	67 min
May 27, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Lancaster, Otoe	51 min
May 27, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Jefferson	34 min
May 27, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage	23 min
May 27, 9:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Jefferson	3 hr
May 27, 9:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Gage	33 min
May 27, 9:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Jefferson, Saline	3 hr
May 27, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson	52 min
May 27, 9:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Gage, Jefferson	3 hr
May 27, 9:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Gage, Johnson, Lancaster, Otoe, Saline	3 hr
May 27, 9:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Cass, Nemaha, Otoe	51 min
May 27, 10:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Gage, Johnson, Lancaster, Otoe	3 hr
May 27, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Nemaha, Otoe	43 min
May 27, 10:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Jefferson	25 min
May 27, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Nemaha, Richardson	52 min
May 27, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Jefferson	32 min
May 27, 10:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Gage, Jefferson	3 hr
May 27, 10:34 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Cass	5 days
May 27, 10:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Gage, Lancaster	3 hr
May 27, 11:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson	3 hr
May 27, 11:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Cass	3 hr
May 27, 11:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Antelope	3 hr
May 27, 11:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Antelope, Knox, Pierce	46 min
May 28, 12:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Antelope, Knox	48 min
May 28, 12:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Saline	63 min
May 28, 12:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Cedar	34 min
May 28, 3:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	OAX	Gage, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson	7 hr
May 28, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Nemaha	47 min
May 28, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Jefferson	50 min
May 27, 10:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie	43 min
May 27, 11:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Montgomery	3 hr
May 28, 9:04 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Monona	5 days
May 28, 5:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Page	54 min
May 28, 5:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Fremont, Page	3 hr
May 28, 6:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Page	58 min

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.