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Flash Flood — Clay, NE

Sep 2, 2018

Property Damage
$10K
Flood Cause
Heavy Rain

A mesoscale convective system produced pockets of high winds and wind damage just after midnight on this Saturday morning. During the evening hours of Friday, scattered small clusters of multi-cell thunderstorms occurred over southwest Nebraska and northwest Kansas. The clusters over southwest Nebraska were moving to the east and the clusters over northwest Kansas were moving northeast. Between 10 and 11 PM CST, as these two areas of thunderstorms, and their outflows, began to merge, thunderstor

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 778766). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Clay, NE

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