Jun 11, 2010
A warm front lifted northeast into eastern Nebraska during the morning hours of June 10th. This brought scattered heavy rain producing thunderstorms to the region. A few of the storms were severe with large hail and damaging winds, but they generally dropped very heavy rainfall which began a 2 week or so period of heavy rain and flooding over much of eastern Nebraska and parts of southwest Iowa. Overall the flooding damage in Nebraska alone in June was estimated to be at least 20 million doll
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 230015). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Colfax County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.