1 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 Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 19, 3:00 PM CST, 5 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 300 PM CST MON MAR 19 2001 SHORT TERM CONCERN IS LOW CLOUD BAND ACRS MUCH OF CWA WITH LONGER TERM FCST EMPHASIS THEN SHIFTING TO PCPN PROB AND TEMPS ON WED. LATEST VSBL STLT AT 20Z SHOWD CLRG LINE MADE IT TO JUST NW OF A OFK TO SUX LINE WITH A RELATIVELY THICK SC EXTDG SE ABOUT 60-80 MILES WIDE WITH CLDS IN SERN NEBR/SWRN IA MORE CELLULAR. THE CELLULAR CLDS SHOULD DECREASE WITH LOSS OF HTG...AND THICKER CLDS COULD DECREASE AS WELL...BUT LATER TNGT...AS WNDS ABV THE SFC BECOME SWRLY AND INCREASE AS FNT APPROACHES. ALTHOUGH CLOUD FCST NWRN ZONES WL BE INFLUENCED BY INCREASE IN HIGH CLDS LATER TNGT...MOST AREAS SHOULD BE OR BECOME PTCLDY TNGT. GUID LOWS LOOK GOOD. FOR TUE...MOISTURE AHD OF FNT IS MARGINAL...BUT WITH SOME CONVERGENCE EXPECTED...WL CONT SMALL POPS ALNG AND NW OF 18Z MESOETAS FNTL FCST FOR LATE AFTN TUE...MAINLY ARND AND NW OF OMA. ALTHOUGH DOWNSLOPE WINDS PLAYED A ROLE...IT WAS VERY MILD UPSTREAM AHD OF FNT THIS AFTN...WITH LOCATIONS IN THICKER MID/HIGH CLDS REACHING WELL INTO THE 50S TO LOWER 60S WITH A 70 NOTED AT HVR MT. ALTHOUGH SOME AFTN COOL ADVCTN NWRN ZONES COULD KEEP READINGS A FEW DEGREES BLO GUID...IT APPEARS IT WOULD TAKE LOW CLD DECK TO RMN IN PLACE TO KEEP READINGS MUCH BLO FWC VALUES REST OF FCST AREA...AND THAT DOESN'T LOOK LIKELY. SO WL ADJ FCST TWD FWC NUMBERS...WHICH WAS WHERE PREV FCST WAS MOST LOCATIONS. TUE NGT/WED LOOKS MORE INTERESTING IN THAT AVN CONTS TREND SEEN YDA OF GENERATING PCPN ACRS STATE WHILE ETA SPREADS PCPN ACRS MAINLY WRN/SRN NEBR. WITH THE FNT WEAKENING THEN STALLING OUT OVR KS...RELATIVELY STG BAROCLINIC AREA SETS UP JUST TO OUR SW. BOTH AVN AND ETA FCST ISENTROPIC LIFT DVLPG TUE NGT THEN SPRDG E ON WED. 700-500 MB QG FORCING THOUGH...EVEN FM AVN...IS MAINLY CNTRL AND SRN ZONES ON WED. MEANWHILE...AVN QPF BULLSEYE IS FTHR N THAN IT'S FCST QG FORCING AND A LTL N OF ETA'S PLACEMENT. SO ALTHOUGH FEEL AVN COULD BE OVERDOING PCPN FCST NRN ZONES...IT HAS BEEN CONSISTENT AND IS WORTH A SLGT CHC N. WL RUN A LTL HIGHER POPS S WHERE BTR FORCING WAS NOTED AND 700-500 MB LAPSE RATES WERE STEEPER. BECAUSE OF EXPECTED CLOUDS...FAN/FWC TEMPS LOOK TOO WARM AND WL GO CLOSER TO MAV OR EVEN A LTL BLO. WE WL COUNT ON ONLY A MODIFIED PIECE OF THE ARCTIC AIRMASS NOW OVR NWRN CAN MOVING INTO THE PLAINS THROUGH TBHE WEEKEND AS STGR JET RMNS ZONAL AND TO OUR N INTO SAT BFR BECOMING MORE NWRLY BUT STILL MAINLY N OF FCST AREA. .OMA...NONE CHERMOK
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Snow melt combined with an ice jam to produce flooding along the Niobrara River near Verdel. The river at Verdel crested at 7.9 feet at 1100 am 3/20/01, flood stage is 7.0 feet. The flooding affected mainly lowlands along the river.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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