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Flash Flood — Stanton, NE

Sep 16, 2016

As an upper level storm system moved into the northern Plains, a warm front retreated through eastern Nebraska and western Iowa during the afternoon. Unseasonably warm and humid air lifted into the region creating marginal instability by mid afternoon, but with the warm front in the area environmental shear was strong. Thunderstorms developed across northeast and east-central Nebraska by mid afternoon. Initially isolated supercells were the dominate mode with large hail the main threat. A small

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 661094). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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