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Flood — Furnas, NE

Jun 21, 2019

The overall most significant, widespread damaging wind event of the 2019 convective season wrought havoc across much of South Central Nebraska between the late evening of Thursday the 20th and around sunrise on Friday the 21st. The culprits were two separate linear mesoscale convective systems (MCS), with the first one by far the most impactful. This first storm complex, which traversed the area between 10:30 p.m. and 3 a.m. CDT, produced a swath of damaging winds ranging anywhere from 60 up to

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 837312). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Furnas, NE

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