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Flash Flood — Buffalo, NE

Sep 21, 2023

Between the mid-afternoon of Thursday the 21st and the early morning of Friday the 22nd, fairly widespread thunderstorm activity affected much of South Central Nebraska, but particularly counties between Interstate 80 and the Kansas border. Within this region, a few rounds of strong to severe storms unfolded, including a handful of intense supercells. Ground-truth severe weather reports were primarily highlighted by large hail, including localized instances of very large stones of baseball to so

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1137156). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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