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River Flood Warning 29, NWS Omaha, NE

March 12, 2019Seward County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this river flood warning at Mar 12, 2019, 2:32 PM CDT for Seward County, Nebraska. It took effect at Mar 13, 2019, 6:37 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 12, 2019, 2:32 PM CDT (19:32 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 13, 2019, 6:37 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 19, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 days
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Moderate

County Seward County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Lincoln Creek near Seward (SWDN1).

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 15 ft
Moderate stage: 17 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06880000, 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 Mar 12, 12:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 12:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 12, 1:55 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 12, 1:57 PM CDT, 35 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
Mar 12, 3:42 AM CDT	High Wind Watch	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Butler, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 11 more	36 hr
Mar 12, 10:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Pierce	8 days
Mar 12, 10:46 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Cass	143 days
Mar 12, 10:46 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Otoe	272 days
Mar 12, 10:46 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Nemaha	273 days
Mar 12, 10:46 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Richardson	273 days
Mar 12, 11:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Stanton	4 days
Mar 12, 11:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Cuming	6 days
Mar 12, 11:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Dodge	5 days
Mar 12, 11:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Douglas	21 days
Mar 12, 11:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Saunders	3 days
Mar 12, 11:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Cass	59 hr
Mar 12, 11:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Saunders	65 hr
Mar 12, 11:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Butler, Polk, Seward	6 days
Mar 12, 11:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Seward	6 days
Mar 12, 11:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Saline	21 days
Mar 12, 11:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Gage	21 days
Mar 12, 11:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Nemaha	68 hr
Mar 12, 11:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Knox	4 days
Mar 12, 11:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Jefferson	23 hr
Mar 12, 1:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 24 more	6 hr
Mar 12, 2:26 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Platte	4 days
Mar 12, 2:26 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Dodge	65 hr
Mar 12, 2:26 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Saline	21 days
Mar 12, 2:52 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Saunders	67 hr
Mar 12, 3:13 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 19 more	25 hr
Mar 12, 10:58 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Page	61 hr
Mar 12, 10:58 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	67 hr
Mar 12, 10:58 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Fremont	4 days
Mar 12, 10:58 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Montgomery	4 days
Mar 12, 10:58 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Fremont	21 days
Mar 12, 11:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Monona	5 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 2019 Every river flood warning in 2019

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.