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River Flood Warning 20, NWS Omaha, NE

June 4, 2015Nemaha County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this river flood warning at Jun 4, 2015, 12:47 PM CDT for Nemaha County, Nebraska. It took effect at Jun 4, 2015, 5:10 PM CDT. It was in force for 41 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 2015, 12:47 PM CDT (17:47 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 4, 2015, 5:10 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 6, 2015, 10:00 AM CDT
In force: 41 hr
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Nemaha County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Little Nemaha River near Auburn (ABRN1). The gauge peaked at 21.95 ft at Jun 4, 2015, 5:00 PM CDT.

Action stage: 20 ft
Minor stage: 22 ft
Moderate stage: 23 ft
Major stage: 27 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06811500, 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, 6 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 6:44 AM CDT, 6 hours 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 4, 11:36 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1136 AM CDT THU JUN 4 2015

IAZ069-079-080-090-091-NEZ050>053-065>068-078-088>093-050645-
POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-FREMONT-PAGE-BUTLER-SAUNDERS-
DOUGLAS-SARPY-SEWARD-LANCASTER-CASS-OTOE-SALINE-JEFFERSON-GAGE-
JOHNSON-NEMAHA-PAWNEE-RICHARDSON-
1136 AM CDT THU JUN 4 2015

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY ACROSS
THE AREA TONIGHT. SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY HAZARD. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO
POSSIBLE THIS EVENING.

A NEARLY STATIONARY SURFACE BOUNDARY REMAINS ACROSS NORTHERN
KANSAS LATE THIS MORNING AND NEW STORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED
TO TAKE PLACE LATE THIS AFTERNOON IN THE VICINITY OF NORTH
CENTRAL KANSAS WHERE BETTER INSTABILITY AND SHEAR WILL BE IN
PLACE. STORMS WILL THEN SPREAD EAST OR NORTHEAST DURING THE
EVENING AND OVERNIGHT INTO EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THUNDERSTORM 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 MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING.

IAZ043-055-056-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-042>045-050645-
MONONA-HARRISON-SHELBY-KNOX-CEDAR-THURSTON-ANTELOPE-PIERCE-WAYNE-
BOONE-MADISON-STANTON-CUMING-BURT-PLATTE-COLFAX-DODGE-WASHINGTON-
1136 AM CDT THU JUN 4 2015

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE TONIGHT ACROSS
NORTHEAST NEBRASKA INTO WEST CENTRAL IOWA. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS
ARE POSSIBLE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY
HAZARDS.

A NEARLY STATIONARY SURFACE BOUNDARY REMAINS ACROSS NORTHERN
KANSAS LATE THIS MORNING AND NEW STORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED
TO TAKE PLACE LATE THIS AFTERNOON IN THE VICINITY OF NORTH
CENTRAL KANSAS WHERE BETTER INSTABILITY AND SHEAR WILL BE IN
PLACE. STORMS WILL THEN SPREAD EAST OR NORTHEAST DURING THE
EVENING AND OVERNIGHT INTO EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THUNDERSTORM 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 IS NOT EXPECTED TONIGHT.

FOBERT

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 9:17 AM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 9:31 AM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 9:32 AM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 9:33 AM CDT, 3 hours 14 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
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, 8:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Saline	6 days
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, 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

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 2015 Every river flood warning in 2015

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.