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Flash Flood — Saline, NE

May 5, 2007

A warm front that was along the Kansas and Nebraska border early Saturday morning May 5th, lifted north during the day bringing widespread heavy rain and severe weather, including tornadoes, to eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa. The warm front was part of a large upper level system that brought several days of severe weather and flooding to the region. |Heavy rain and flooding was reported with some of the activity Saturday morning, along with isolated severe thunderstorm reports. However, d

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 20258). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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