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Flash Flood — Sherman, NE

Aug 15, 2017

Between the afternoon of Tuesday the 15th and the morning of Wednesday the 16th, roughly the northern half of this 24-county South Central Nebraska area saw its most significant heavy rain and localized flooding event of 2017, along with a smattering of severe storms (including one that pounded the Fullerton area with tennis ball to baseball size hail). Focusing first on the heavy rain and flooding, most areas north of a line from Kearney-Hastings-York measured at least 2-4 per NWS observers/CoC

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 719451). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Sherman, NE

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