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River Flood Warning 42, NWS Omaha, NE

September 4, 2018Saunders County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this river flood warning at Sep 4, 2018, 3:39 PM CDT for Saunders County, Nebraska. It took effect at Sep 4, 2018, 4:01 PM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 4, 2018, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 4, 2018, 4:01 PM CDT
Expired: Sep 5, 2018, 3:39 PM CDT
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

County Saunders County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Wahoo Creek at Wahoo (WOON1).

Action stage: 18 ft
Minor stage: 21 ft
Moderate stage: 24 ft
Major stage: 28 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06803960, 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 Sep 4, 3:27 PM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 4, 3:27 PM CDT, 12 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
Sep 3, 10:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Gage, Jefferson	6 hr
Sep 4, 1:55 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Cass, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Otoe and 1 more	7 hr
Sep 4, 2:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Cass, Gage, Lancaster, Otoe	3 hr
Sep 4, 2:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Douglas, Sarpy, Saunders	6 hr
Sep 4, 3:38 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Cass, Otoe, Sarpy	2 hr
Sep 4, 6:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	OAX	Johnson, Pawnee	28 hr
Sep 4, 6:42 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Cass	23 hr
Sep 4, 6:42 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Saunders	25 hr
Sep 4, 7:36 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	OAX	Cass, Lancaster, Otoe, Saunders	6 hr
Sep 4, 8:02 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Gage	36 hr
Sep 4, 9:45 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Gage	45 hr
Sep 4, 10:02 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Otoe	7 days
Sep 4, 12:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Gage, Jefferson, Lancaster, Saline, Saunders, Seward	4 hr
Sep 4, 1:47 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Cass	4 days
Sep 4, 2:46 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Saline	54 hr
Sep 4, 3:39 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Saunders	22 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 2018 Every river flood warning 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; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.