May 19, 2011
Following a short stretch of dry days centered around mid-month, an abrupt transition to a very wet pattern arrived in parts of South Central Nebraska between the evening hours of Thursday the 19th and early morning hours of Friday the 20th. This came in the form of two distinct rounds of thunderstorms, with the heaviest 24-hour rainfall totals targeting locations generally east of a line from Red Cloud, to Clay Center, to Osceola. Focusing on timing, the first wave of heavy rain-producing storm
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 317530). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Clay County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.