1,090 first-hand accounts of flood events in Nebraska, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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.
Read the full account →For the second day in a row a stationary front extended across extreme southeast Nebraska and southwest Iowa during the afternoon of August 8th.
Read the full account →Supercell thunderstorms developed along a nearly stationary front across southwest Nebraska during the afternoon hours of June 4th and continued through the afternoon of June 5th.
Read the full account →Heavy rain of 4 to 5 inches caused flooding in Adams and Franklin counties. In northern Franklin county, the flooding was in the upper reaches of the Thompson Creek near Hildreth.
Read the full account →First in a wave of systems to push out of Colorado and the Panhandle into Southwest Nebraska during the evening of June 11th through June 13th. The initial storm system brought large hail and very heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →A combination of melting snow and warmer temperatures helped form ice jams along sections of eastern Nebraska rivers and streams over the last few weeks of February.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →Afternoon thunderstorms developed along a surface boundary draped across south central Nebraska as an upper level disturbance moved across the plains.
Read the full account →Afternoon thunderstorms developed along a surface boundary draped across south central Nebraska as an upper level disturbance moved across the plains.
Read the full account →A weak upper-level disturbance tracked from the central High Plains through the mid Missouri Valley, encouraging the development of a surface low from southeast South Dakota into eastern Nebraska.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed in two different waves on a southwest to northeast orientated cold front across eastern Nebraska. In the early morning of the 30th, a wave of thunderstorms moved northeast across northeastern Nebraska.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms just to the northeast of Guide Rock dumped very heavy rain across eastern Webster County. Rainfall of 2 to 4 inches was common, most of which fell in the Elm, Crooked and Willow Creeks.
Read the full account →Rainfall of one to three inches on frozen ground and into a snow pack with between 1 and 3 inches of liquid water equivalent resulted in considerable areal flooding and flooding of small streams.
Read the full account →Rainfall of one to three inches on frozen ground and into a snow pack with between 1 and 3 inches of liquid water equivalent resulted in considerable areal flooding and flooding of small streams.
Read the full account →Rainfall of one to three inches on frozen ground and into a snow pack with between 1 and 3 inches of liquid water equivalent resulted in considerable areal flooding and flooding of small streams.
Read the full account →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…
Read the full account →A nearly stalled upper level system brought 4 straight days of moderate to heavy rainfall over sections of northeast Nebraska. Around 5 inches of rain was reported around the Humphrey area which produced some minor lowland flooding near and just south of town along Tracey…
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed during the early evening hours in the Nebraska Panhandle along an approaching cold front. As storms tracked east they became more widespread in nature.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed during the early evening hours in the Nebraska Panhandle along an approaching cold front. As storms tracked east they became more widespread in nature.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed during the early evening hours in the Nebraska Panhandle along an approaching cold front. As storms tracked east they became more widespread in nature.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed during the early evening hours in the Nebraska Panhandle along an approaching cold front. As storms tracked east they became more widespread in nature.
Read the full account →A stalled out frontal boundary draped from southern Nebraska into northeastern Colorado served as the focal point for thunderstorms. Thunderstorms initiated over northeastern Colorado and became severe as they tracked east into southwestern Nebraska.
Read the full account →A stalled out frontal boundary draped from southern Nebraska into northeastern Colorado served as the focal point for thunderstorms. Thunderstorms initiated over northeastern Colorado and became severe as they tracked east into southwestern Nebraska.
Read the full account →A stalled out frontal boundary draped from southern Nebraska into northeastern Colorado served as the focal point for thunderstorms. Thunderstorms initiated over northeastern Colorado and became severe as they tracked east into southwestern Nebraska.
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