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Flash Flood — Antelope, NE

May 31, 2024

Upper-level troughing was noted over the northern Rockies via upper-air analysis the morning of the 30th. This disturbance slowly tracked east across the northern Plains. Associated with this upper-level disturbance, a weakening cold front dove southeast across the northern Plains, stalling out across eastern Nebraska and northwest Iowa by the morning of the 31st. Along and ahead of this front, scattered showers and thunderstorms developed across eastern Nebraska the afternoon of the 30th. While

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1181305). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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