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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Hastings, NE

September 1, 201813 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood watch at Sep 1, 2018, 5:05 PM CDT for 13 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Sep 1, 2018, 5:36 PM CDT. It was in force for 4 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 1, 2018, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 1, 2018, 5:36 PM CDT
Expired
Sep 5, 2018, 1:00 PM CDT
In force
4 days
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Flood severity
None

Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Polk County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Sep 1, 2:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 2:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 1, 4:51 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 31, 11:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDDawson49 min
Aug 31, 11:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFranklin48 min
Sep 1, 12:03 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDDawson42 min
Sep 1, 12:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFranklin, Webster22 min
Sep 1, 12:21 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFurnas, Phelps39 min
Sep 1, 12:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFranklin, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps52 min
Sep 1, 1:13 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDHall, Phelps47 min
Sep 1, 1:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Kearney52 min
Sep 1, 1:51 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDWebster39 min
Sep 1, 2:03 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDHamilton42 min
Sep 1, 2:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHamilton, Merrick39 min
Sep 1, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHamilton, Merrick, Nance, Polk38 min
Sep 1, 2:32 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDPolk, York43 min
Aug 31, 11:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDPhillips30 min
Sep 1, 4:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDRooks24 min
Sep 1, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Rooks38 min
Sep 1, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne46 min
Sep 1, 5:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDJewell25 min
Sep 1, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell35 min
Sep 1, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell, Osborne27 min
Sep 1, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith26 min
Sep 1, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell, Osborne32 min
Sep 1, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell, Mitchell46 min
Sep 1, 6:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDMitchell36 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Nebraska, 2018Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2018Every flash flood watch in 2018

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.