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Nebraska Flood Stories

1,090 first-hand accounts of flood events in Nebraska, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Flash Flood$20K damage

Washington, NE · May 6, 2007

A warm front that was along the Kansas and Nebraska border early Saturday morning May 5th, lifted north during the day bringing widespread heavy rain and severe weather, including tornadoes, to eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Polk, NE · Aug 6, 2007

A couple of rounds of thunderstorms impacted south central Nebraska on this day. The first was in the morning hours. A severe thunderstorm rolled east across the Wolbach area. High winds dropped power lines and large trees in town.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Polk, NE · Aug 6, 2007

A couple of rounds of thunderstorms impacted south central Nebraska on this day. The first was in the morning hours. A severe thunderstorm rolled east across the Wolbach area. High winds dropped power lines and large trees in town.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Webster, NE · May 23, 2008

Large upper level trough over the western U.S. continued to eject energy out over the Central Plains, with a surface low remaining anchored over eastern Colorado with a stationary boundary draped east through the region.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Adams, NE · Jun 24, 2008

An upper level disturbance interacting with surface boundaries left from previous convection brought another round of thunderstorms to south central Nebraska. A southerly low level jet helped to sustain thunderstorms well into the overnight hours.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Howard, NE · Jun 4, 2008

An upper level trough continued to dig over the western United States, accompanied by a weak disturbance and jet streak nosing into the Central Plains.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Merrick, NE · Jun 4, 2008

An upper level trough continued to dig over the western United States, accompanied by a weak disturbance and jet streak nosing into the Central Plains.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Nance, NE · Jun 4, 2008

An upper level trough continued to dig over the western United States, accompanied by a weak disturbance and jet streak nosing into the Central Plains.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Franklin, NE · May 29, 2008

A significant severe weather outbreak occurred during the late afternoon and evening of May 29th. Several tornadoes were reported from near Elwood to north of York. Two tornadoes caused damage in the city of Kearney and one occurred just to the south of town.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Pierce, NE · Aug 16, 2009

Moist and unstable conditions that prevailed over eastern Nebraska during the afternoon and evening hours of August 15th helped set the stage for slow moving thunderstorms that repeatedly developed and tracked across parts of northeast Nebraska.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Madison, NE · Aug 16, 2009

Moist and unstable conditions that prevailed over eastern Nebraska during the afternoon and evening hours of August 15th helped set the stage for slow moving thunderstorms that repeatedly developed and tracked across parts of northeast Nebraska.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Colfax, NE · Jun 10, 2010

A warm front lifted northeast into eastern Nebraska during the morning hours of June 10th. This brought scattered heavy rain producing thunderstorms to the region.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Platte, NE · Jun 10, 2010

A warm front lifted northeast into eastern Nebraska during the morning hours of June 10th. This brought scattered heavy rain producing thunderstorms to the region.

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Flood$20K damage

Adams, NE · Aug 26, 2009

An upper level disturbance working its way across the Plains worked in conjunction with a slow moving surface frontal boundary to produce thunderstorms across South Central Nebraska.

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Flood$20K damage

Douglas, NE · Jun 12, 2010

An upper level trough over the western U.S. pushed a cold front into central Nebraska during the overnight hours of June 11th and 12th. This system brought scattered heavy-rain producing thunderstorms to eastern Nebraska and western Iowa.

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Flood$20K damage

Cass, NE · Sep 2, 2010

Thunderstorms developed in southeast Nebraska along and south of a weak nearly stationary front during the early evening of Sept 1. The storms produced a few marginally severe hailstones, but since many of them repeatedly tracked across the same area for several hours, they…

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Flash Flood

Cheyenne, NE · Jun 14, 2024

Multiple rounds of training thunderstorms produced an extended period of torrential rainfall across Cheyenne and Morrill counties from the mid to late afternoon into the early evening hours on 6/14.

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Flash Flood

Cheyenne, NE · Jun 14, 2024

Multiple rounds of training thunderstorms produced an extended period of torrential rainfall across Cheyenne and Morrill counties from the mid to late afternoon into the early evening hours on 6/14.

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Flash Flood

Cheyenne, NE · Jun 14, 2024

Multiple rounds of training thunderstorms produced an extended period of torrential rainfall across Cheyenne and Morrill counties from the mid to late afternoon into the early evening hours on 6/14.

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Flash Flood

Cheyenne, NE · Jun 14, 2024

Multiple rounds of training thunderstorms produced an extended period of torrential rainfall across Cheyenne and Morrill counties from the mid to late afternoon into the early evening hours on 6/14.

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Flash Flood

Cheyenne, NE · Jun 14, 2024

Multiple rounds of training thunderstorms produced an extended period of torrential rainfall across Cheyenne and Morrill counties from the mid to late afternoon into the early evening hours on 6/14.

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Flash Flood

Cheyenne, NE · Jun 14, 2024

Multiple rounds of training thunderstorms produced an extended period of torrential rainfall across Cheyenne and Morrill counties from the mid to late afternoon into the early evening hours on 6/14.

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Flash Flood

Morrill, NE · Jun 14, 2024

Multiple rounds of training thunderstorms produced an extended period of torrential rainfall across Cheyenne and Morrill counties from the mid to late afternoon into the early evening hours on 6/14.

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Flash Flood

Cheyenne, NE · Jun 14, 2024

Multiple rounds of training thunderstorms produced an extended period of torrential rainfall across Cheyenne and Morrill counties from the mid to late afternoon into the early evening hours on 6/14.

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