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River Flood Warning 17, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this river flood warning at Jun 4, 2015, 8:41 AM CDT for Saline County, Nebraska. It took effect at Jun 4, 2015, 8:57 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2015, 8:41 AM CDT (13:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 4, 2015, 8:57 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2015, 10:51 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 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 13:41 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 Jun 4, 6:44 AM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 6:44 AM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 414 AM CDT THU JUN 4 2015 IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-042315- 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- 414 AM CDT THU JUN 4 2015 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 SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY PERSIST OVER THE MAJORITY OF THE MORNING HOURS AND THEN AGAIN TONIGHT. AT THIS POINT IT APPEARS THAT ANY SEVERE STORM DEVELOPMENT WILL MOST LIKELY BE FOUND ALONG AND SOUTH OF I-80. IN ADDITION TO THE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND THREAT...ABUNDANT ENVIRONMENTAL MOISTURE WILL LIKELY RESULT IN FLASH FLOOD PRODUCING STORMS...PARTICULARLY OVER SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST IOWA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS CHANCES WILL VERY GRADUALLY DECREASE FROM NORTH TO SOUTH THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA WHEN A DRIER...MORE STABLE AIR MASS FILTERS IN BEHIND A COLD FRONT PUSHING INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 6:29 AM CDT, 2 hours 12 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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| Jun 4, 12:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Saline | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 12:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Pawnee | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pawnee | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 12:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Richardson | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 1:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Saline, Seward | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 1:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Pawnee | 28 min |
| Jun 4, 1:23 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OAX | Pawnee, Richardson | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Lancaster | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 2:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Richardson | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Richardson | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 5:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Saline | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Jefferson, Saline | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 6:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Jefferson, Saline | 31 min |
| Jun 4, 7:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Gage, Johnson, Otoe | 29 min |
| Jun 4, 7:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Gage | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 7:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Nemaha, Otoe | 39 min |
| Jun 4, 8:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Gage, Jefferson | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 9:00 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | OAX | Jefferson, Saline | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 9:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Gage, Pawnee | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 9:03 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | OAX | Johnson, Pawnee, Richardson | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 10:09 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 35 hr |
| Jun 4, 10:18 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | OAX | Richardson | 67 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:47 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | OAX | Nemaha | 45 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | OAX | Butler, Cass, Douglas, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson and 9 more | 17 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:09 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | OAX | Gage | 5 days |
| Jun 4, 3:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Saline | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 4:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Gage, Lancaster, Saline, Seward | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 4:49 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | OAX | Richardson | 64 hr |
| Jun 4, 5:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Johnson | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 6:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 6:40 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | OAX | Jefferson | 25 hr |
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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.