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Flash Flood — Mills, IA

Aug 10, 2025

A powerful line of thunderstorms, bringing with it a broad swath of damaging winds, swept across eastern Nebraska and western Iowa on the morning of August 10, 2025. This episode of severe weather was responsible for numerous reports of wind gusts exceeding 60 mph, significant structural damage, and tragically, one fatality. The thunderstorms developed as a powerful low-pressure system moved across the northern Great Plains, with a front extending through eastern Nebraska and into Kansas. A stea

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1286596). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Mills, IA

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