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Flood — York, NE

Jun 4, 2015

For the third consecutive night, this time from the evening of Thursday the 4th into the early morning of Friday the 5th, several rounds of thunderstorms rumbled across much of the 24-county South Central Nebraska area. And for the second straight night, the majority of storms concentrated within the southeastern half of the area. Although the first few hours of evening convection yielded several hail reports up to mainly quarter size within Hall, Hamilton, Merrick and York counties, by far the

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 574068). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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