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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE

420 AM CDT FRI AUG 23 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SAUNDERS AND 

LANCASTER COUNTIES UNTIL 800 AM CDT...



AS OF 415 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE OVER THE SOUTHERN 

PART OF LANCASTER COUNTY.  HOWEVER...MORE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE

INTO THE AREA.

  

DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT FROM 3 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAD ALREADY 

OCCURRED IN THE AREA BETWEEN LINCOLN AND CRETE SINCE MIDNIGHT.  

FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY ON HOLMES CREEK...MIDDLE 

CREEK AND THE UPPER PARTS OF THE SALT CREEK BASIN THIS MORNING.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 

DANGERS OF ROAD AND STREAM FLOODING.  DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED 

AREAS.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.



LAT...LON 4125 9637 4102 9636 4102 9646 4052 9648

          4054 9690 4126 9693



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