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River Flood Warning 44, NWS Omaha, NE

August 28, 2014Seward County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this river flood warning at Aug 28, 2014, 10:33 AM CDT for Seward County, Nebraska. It took effect at Aug 28, 2014, 10:52 AM CDT. It was in force for 70 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 28, 2014, 10:33 AM CDT (15:33 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 28, 2014, 10:52 AM CDT
Expired: Aug 31, 2014, 8:40 AM CDT
In force: 70 hr
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Seward County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Lincoln Creek near Seward (SWDN1).

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 15 ft
Moderate stage: 17 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06880000, 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 Aug 28, 6:43 AM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 6:43 AM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 28, 5:21 AM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
521 AM CDT THU AUG 28 2014

IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-
042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-290030-
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-
521 AM CDT THU AUG 28 2014

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

PERIODS OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE EARLY THIS
MORNING...HEAVY AT TIMES...THEN SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. LOCALLY
HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS.

DUE TO RECENT RAINS AND SATURATED SOILS...ADDITIONAL RAINFALL MAY
PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING AND RIVER FLOODING THROUGH
TONIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR PARTS OF THE OUTLOOK
AREA THIS MORNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. BRIEF HEAVY
RAIN AND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND SUNDAY NIGHT.
IN ADDITION...THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT...HOWEVER
SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER ONE INCH
TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT OMAHA.

ZAPOTOCNY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 28, 9:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 28, 9:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 28, 9:40 AM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 28, 9:58 AM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 28, 10:02 AM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 28, 10:19 AM CDT, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
1019 AM CDT THU AUG 28 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0919 AM     HEAVY RAIN       2 SW PAPILLION          41.14N 96.07W
08/28/2014  M3.63 INCH       SARPY              NE   COCORAHS

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 27, 11:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	OAX	Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming and 15 more	11 hr
Aug 28, 2:45 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Cass, Otoe	3 hr
Aug 28, 2:58 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Butler, Saline, Seward	3 hr
Aug 28, 3:22 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Cass, Lancaster, Saunders	3 hr
Aug 28, 3:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Cass	3 hr
Aug 28, 4:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Sarpy	3 hr
Aug 28, 5:09 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Saline	7 days
Aug 28, 5:09 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Seward	6 days
Aug 28, 5:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Saunders	3 hr
Aug 28, 5:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Saunders	106 min
Aug 28, 5:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Dodge, Douglas, Sarpy, Saunders, Washington	2 hr
Aug 28, 7:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Burt	2 hr
Aug 28, 10:27 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Saunders	34 hr
Aug 28, 1:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OAX	Saunders	12 hr
Aug 28, 6:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie	2 hr
Aug 28, 1:52 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Fremont	23 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 2014 Every river flood warning in 2014

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.