1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 22, 9:51 AM CST, 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...COR FOR HEADLINES...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1051 AM CDT SUN APR 22 2001
WITH PRECIP CHANGING OVER NORTHWEST...TEMPS FALLING INTO THE UPPER
20S TO MID 30S OVER ENTIRE CWA...WILL UPDATE ACCORDINGLY. WINDS
PICKING UP IN FAR SOUTHERN COUNTY...WILL ISSUE WIND ADVISORY FOR
SOUTHERN THREE COUNTIES THROUGH THIS EVENING.
.LBF...WINTER STORM WARNING TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT ZONES
004-005-022>024-035
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY TODAY AND TONIGHT ZONES
006-008-009-025-026-036-037-056>059
WIND ADVISORY THROUGH THIS EVENING ZONE 069>071.
M. MUTCHLERNEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-221630- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 546 AM CDT SUN APR 22 2001 ...STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT... THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN PARTS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE GREATEST RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE EAST OF A LINE FROM IMPERIAL...TO NORTH PLATTE AND O NEILL. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO THE WEST THROUGH EVENING. A LOW PRESSURE CENTER OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO WILL TRACK NORTHEAST ALONG A WARM FRONT TODAY. THE WARM FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO LIFT NORTH INTO NEBRASKA...AND EXTEND NORTHEAST THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL INTO NORTHEAST NEBRASKA BY EVENING. THE FRONT WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR CONTINUED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...SOME WHICH MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS AS STRONG LIFTING OCCURS. A SERICES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL MOVE NORTH AND ROTATE AROUND AN UPPER LEVEL LOW...WHICH WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA DURING THE AFTERNOON. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL. TLK
NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-222045- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1054 AM CDT SUN APR 22 2001 ...STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN PARTS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE GREATEST RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE EAST OF A LINE FROM IMPERIAL...TO AINSWORTH. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO THE WEST THROUGH EVENING. A LOW PRESSURE CENTER OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO WILL TRACK NORTHEAST ALONG A WARM FRONT TODAY. THE WARM FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO LIFT NORTH INTO NEBRASKA...AND EXTEND NORTHEAST THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL INTO NORTHEAST NEBRASKA BY EVENING. THE FRONT WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR CONTINUED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...SOME WHICH MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS AS STRONG LIFTING OCCURS. A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL MOVE NORTH AND ROTATE AROUND AN UPPER LEVEL LOW...WHICH WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA DURING THE AFTERNOON. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. DP
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:58 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
State Highway 2 was inundated with water on the east end of Broken Bow due to heavy rain on already saturated ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, April 2001
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: 5237143.