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Flash Flood — Nemaha, KS

May 6, 2007

Widespread early morning thunderstorms with attendant very heavy rain caused widespread flash flooding. The flash flooding gave way to more generalized flooding by late morning. Some of the flooding lasted for several days. Record flooding occurred in Osage county at the gage sites on Salt Creek near Lyndon and the Marais Des Cygnes near Quenemo.|This flooding brought local disaster emergency declarations for Riley and Dickinson counties. This action qualified those counties for state and federa

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 31351). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Nemaha, KS

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