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Flash Flood — Fillmore, NE

May 27, 2016

Isolated flash flooding occurred on this Friday afternoon and evening, along with some marginally severe hail in a couple spots. Between 3 and 5 p.m. CST, numerous small, mostly single-cell thunderstorms developed over south central Nebraska, primarily south-to-north along Highway 81. Between 4:30 and 4:40 p.m. CST, hail as large as 1 inch in diameter occurred in a couple locations in and around the town of Bruning, which is in Thayer County. Nickel size hail also occurred nearby in Hardy, which

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 631883). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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