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River Flood Warning 36, NWS Omaha, NE

June 18, 2016Saunders County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this river flood warning at Jun 18, 2016, 12:42 PM CDT for Saunders County, Nebraska. It took effect at Jun 18, 2016, 2:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 25 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 2016, 12:42 PM CDT (17:42 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 18, 2016, 2:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 19, 2016, 3:18 PM CDT
In force: 25 hr
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
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 17:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Wahoo Creek at Ithaca (ITHN1). The gauge peaked at 19.93 ft at Jun 18, 2016, 6:00 PM 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 Jun 18, 12:23 PM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 12:23 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 12:09 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 18, 9:38 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 9:44 AM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 10:29 AM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 10:35 AM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 10:43 AM CDT, 1 hour 59 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 17, 8:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Cedar, Knox	28 min
Jun 17, 9:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Antelope, Cedar, Knox, Pierce, Thurston, Wayne	49 min
Jun 17, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cedar, Knox	28 min
Jun 17, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Cedar, Knox, Pierce, Wayne	31 min
Jun 17, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Thurston, Wayne	30 min
Jun 17, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Cedar, Knox, Pierce, Wayne	47 min
Jun 17, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Cuming, Stanton, Thurston, Wayne	45 min
Jun 17, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Madison, Pierce, Stanton, Wayne	39 min
Jun 17, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Thurston, Wayne	28 min
Jun 17, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge, Stanton, Thurston and 1 more	32 min
Jun 17, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Madison, Pierce, Platte	29 min
Jun 18, 12:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge, Madison and 2 more	29 min
Jun 18, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Dodge, Douglas, Saunders	27 min
Jun 18, 12:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Dodge	3 hr
Jun 18, 1:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Douglas	45 min
Jun 18, 1:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Dodge, Douglas, Saunders, Washington	3 hr
Jun 18, 2:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Colfax, Cuming, Stanton	2 hr
Jun 18, 4:04 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Dodge	3 hr
Jun 18, 4:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Dodge	24 hr
Jun 18, 6:05 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Dodge	24 hr
Jun 18, 10:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Colfax, Cuming, Dodge, Douglas, Saunders, Washington	6 hr
Jun 18, 12:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Saunders	4 hr
Jun 18, 2:44 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Saunders	24 hr
Jun 18, 4:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Dodge	6 hr

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.