Heavy Rain, Harlan
- When
- July 18, 2:00 AM CST to 8:00 AM CST
- Where
- Harlan County, Countywide
- Crop damage
- $250,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.177, -99.405 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood and Heavy Rain in Nebraska, July 18 to 19, 2000
Isolated and slow moving thunderstorms dumped heavy rains on parts of Harlan and Adams counties before dawn. In southern Harlan county, several reports of 4 to 6 inches of rain were received.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
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- 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
- $750,000
- Events
- 2
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS GID wrote it up.
Isolated and slow moving thunderstorms dumped heavy rains on parts of Harlan and Adams counties before dawn. In southern Harlan county, several reports of 4 to 6 inches of rain were received. One resident reported the rain gauge overflowed from the heavy rain. In southern Adams county, 2 to 4 inch rains across the water-logged Little Blue River basin sent the river out of its banks on the 18th and 19th. Roads and bridges near the river in Adams county were barricaded, but no significant damage was noted.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 heavy rain, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flood, Adams
- When
- July 18, 11:00 AM CST to July 19, 4:00 AM CST
- Where
- Adams forecast zone
- Crop damage
- $500,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 40.525, -98.501 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Louisiana, July 18, 2000
- Heat in Mississippi, July 18, 2000
- Heat in Mississippi, July 18, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 18, 2000
- Heat in Texas, July 18, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Idaho, July 18, 2000
- Tornado in Missouri, July 18, 2000
- Flood in Illinois, July 18, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 18, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Maine, July 18, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Vermont, July 18, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Maine, July 18, 2000
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, July 2000
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: 5175560, 5175561.