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Flood — Washington, NE

Jun 24, 2024

A series of shortwave troughs traversing the northern CONUS brought unsettled weather to the area for the end of June. On the 21st, a stationary front was draped across northeast Nebraska into Iowa. Ahead of one of the aforementioned shortwave troughs, several rounds of strong thunderstorms developed near this frontal zone and moved across northeast Nebraska. At 8 pm on the 21st, radar imagery showed training thunderstorms had set up across central Nebraska. These storms moved into east-central

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1198612). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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