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Flash Flood — Seward, NE

May 11, 2014

One long-tracked supercell thunderstorm, and several other shorter-lived storms spawned tornadoes across eastern Nebraska during the late afternoon and evening hours of May 11th. The storms developed near the intersection of a warm front and dry-line/cold front in south central Nebraska then tracked northeast along the warm front toward the Lincoln and Omaha areas. Conditions in the area were very unstable with temperatures in the 80s to around 90 south of the warm front with dew point temper

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 507145). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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