Flash Flood in Nebraska, May 28, 2002

Name: Flash Flood in Nebraska, May 28, 2002
Start: 2002-05-28T01:50
End: 2002-05-28T02:50
Location: Nebraska

May 28, 2002 · NWS OAX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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.

What forecasters said that day

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 May 28, 1:50 AM CST, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 1:50 AM CST, 0 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
250 AM CDT TUE MAY 28 2002

MCS OVER FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING WITH LINE STARTING TO PUSH INTO
IOWA AT 0730Z.  EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO END ACROSS AREA THIS MORNING
AS TROF OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS SHIFTS EAST.  SOME CHANCE OF
ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS SFC TROF
OVER NRN PLAINS WORKS ITS WAY EAST.  ONLY REAL CHANGE TO GOING
FORECAST WAS TO INCREASE TEMPS FOR TODAY AND WEDNESDAY. REMAINDER
OF FORECAST LEFT PRETTY MUCH ALONE DUE TO ONGOING CONVECTION THIS
MORNING.

IF YOU HAVE COMMENTS ON THE NEW FORECAST DISCUSSION FORMAT...PLEASE
E-MAIL THEM TO W-OAX.WEBMASTER@NOAA.GOV OR CALL DAVE THEOPHILUS AT
402-359-5166.

.OMA...NONE.
FOBERT

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:48 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Gage

When: May 28, 1:50 AM CST to 2:50 AM CST
Where: Gage County, Beatrice
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 40.262, -96.689 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Numerous county roads were covered by water around Beatrice.

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

Every storm in Nebraska in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Nebraska, May 2002

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: 5299667.