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Flood — Howard, NE

Jun 20, 2014

Although ground-truth reports of severe-criteria hail and wind emanated from only seven counties mainly within northern and central portions of South Central Nebraska on this Friday, the coverage of non-severe thunderstorms and locally heavy rain became rather widespread across much of the area during the late evening and lasting into the early morning hours of the 21st. Despite the somewhat limited areal coverage of verified severe storms, this was a more-significant-than-expected and fairly lo

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 532598). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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