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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.

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Boone, NE · Mar 13, 2019

A 971mb bomb cyclone moved out of the central Rockies on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 and helped to create widespread, moderate to major, and in many cases historic, flooding across eastern Nebraska and western Iowa.

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Thurston, NE · Mar 13, 2019

A 971mb bomb cyclone moved out of the central Rockies on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 and helped to create widespread, moderate to major, and in many cases historic, flooding across eastern Nebraska and western Iowa.

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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.

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Thayer, NE · Jun 22, 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.

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Seward, NE · Mar 13, 2019

A 971mb bomb cyclone moved out of the central Rockies on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 and helped to create widespread, moderate to major, and in many cases historic, flooding across eastern Nebraska and western Iowa.

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Dakota, NE · Mar 13, 2019

A historic flooding event unfolded as heavy rainfall drenched the area on March 13-14, 2019. With frozen and impervious ground, full and rapid runoff was maximized.

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Dixon, NE · Mar 13, 2019

A historic flooding event unfolded as heavy rainfall drenched the area on March 13-14, 2019. With frozen and impervious ground, full and rapid runoff was maximized.

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Lancaster, NE · May 28, 2019

Nocturnal thunderstorms moved across the region north of a stalled frontal boundary that set up across the Nebraska and Kansas border. A severe thunderstorm watch was in effect. A flash flood watch was also in effect.

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Saunders, NE · May 28, 2019

Nocturnal thunderstorms moved across the region north of a stalled frontal boundary that set up across the Nebraska and Kansas border. A severe thunderstorm watch was in effect. A flash flood watch was also in effect.

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Thayer, NE · Oct 1, 2019

Primarily during the daylight hours on Tuesday the 1st, a pronounced swath of heavy rain targeted much of Thayer and southeastern Fillmore counties, prompting various instances of mainly minor flooding that persisted into the afternoon of the 2nd before water receded…

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Hall, NE · Aug 26, 2019

A complex of strong to severe thunderstorms raced southeastward through mainly the northeast half of South Central Nebraska on this Monday morning, causing a few marginally-severe wind gusts, but mainly just dumping more unwelcomed rain, promoting new flooding issues and/or…

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Buffalo, NE · Aug 23, 2019

As severe storm/flooding events go, some are definitely better-anticipated than others (forecast-wise). Unfortunately, what transpired on this Thursday evening the 22nd into early Friday morning the 23rd fell into the low-predictability category, as an apparent mesoscale…

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Flash Flood$15K damage

Knox, NE · Jul 22, 2010

A line of thunderstorms developed in extreme northeast Nebraska in response to an increasing low level jet feeding in very moist and unstable conditions into a weak nearly stationary front in the region.

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Flood$15K damage

Knox, NE · Jul 22, 2010

A line of thunderstorms developed in extreme northeast Nebraska in response to an increasing low level jet feeding in very moist and unstable conditions into a weak nearly stationary front in the region.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Madison, NE · Aug 22, 2007

A stationary front draped across southern Nebraska and an upper level disturbance helped kick off heavy rain producing thunderstorms during the afternoon and early evening hours of August 22nd.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Fillmore, NE · Jul 9, 2008

Afternoon thunderstorms developed along a surface boundary draped across south central Nebraska as an upper level disturbance moved across the plains.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Hamilton, NE · Jul 9, 2008

Afternoon thunderstorms developed along a surface boundary draped across south central Nebraska as an upper level disturbance moved across the plains.

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Flash Flood

Morrill, NE · Jun 9, 2010

A warm front moved north out of northeastern Colorado the afternoon of 9 June 2010 into southeast Wyoming and the Nebraska Panhandle. The warm front interacted with pre-existing outflow boundaries and later in the evening of the 9th, an approaching upper level jet streak, to…

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Morrill, NE · Jun 9, 2010

A warm front moved north out of northeastern Colorado the afternoon of 9 June 2010 into southeast Wyoming and the Nebraska Panhandle. The warm front interacted with pre-existing outflow boundaries and later in the evening of the 9th, an approaching upper level jet streak, to…

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Flash Flood$10K damage

Richardson, NE · Jun 15, 2009

Thunderstorms developed along and north of a warm front that extended across northern Kansas during the mid evening hours of June 15th. The storms produced very heavy rain, and some locations picked up 2 inches or so in an hour or two, which produced localized flash flooding.

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Cherry, NE · Jul 10, 2020

Two primary supercells moved southeast from Cherry County and vicinity toward Custer County during the late morning and afternoon. An additional round of storms consisting of a linear system and a supercell moved through north central Nebraska later in the evening.

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Cherry, NE · Jul 10, 2020

Two primary supercells moved southeast from Cherry County and vicinity toward Custer County during the late morning and afternoon. An additional round of storms consisting of a linear system and a supercell moved through north central Nebraska later in the evening.

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Antelope, NE · Jan 19, 2019

A winter storm brought some ice to the area. Initial forecasts also called for 2 to 5 inches of snow, but dry air in the mid levels resulted in freezing drizzle throughout the duration, and snowfall of one half inch or less.

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Antelope, NE · Jan 19, 2019

A winter storm brought some ice to the area. Initial forecasts also called for 2 to 5 inches of snow, but dry air in the mid levels resulted in freezing drizzle throughout the duration, and snowfall of one half inch or less.

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