Flash Flood, Saunders
- When
- August 21, 6:39 AM CST
- Where
- Saunders County, Prague
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.226, -96.637 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Sand Creek out of its banks in Prague area.
Flash Flood in Nebraska, August 21, 1998
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 25 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:39 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, August 21, 1998
- Tropical Storm in Texas, August 21 to 22, 1998
- Tropical Storm in Louisiana, August 21 to 22, 1998
- Tropical Storm in Texas, August 21 to 22, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 21, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 21, 1998
- Hail in Montana, August 21, 1998
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, August 21, 1998
- Tropical Storm in U.S. Virgin Islands, August 21, 1998
- Flood in Nebraska, August 21, 1998
- Flood in Louisiana, August 21, 1998
- Flood in Louisiana, August 21, 1998
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, August 1998
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5666610.