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WGUS73 KGID 060326

FFSGID

NEC001-099-060830-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE

1024 PM CDT MON JUL 5 2004



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 330 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE 

FOLLOWING COUNTIES...



IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

     ADAMS AND KEARNEY



AT 1019 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY

HEAVY RAIN FROM 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AYR TO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF

AXTELL...OR FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF HASTINGS TO 16 MILES EAST OF

HOLDREGE....MOVING SOUTEAST AT 25 MPH.



* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...NORMAN...HOLSTEIN...MINDEN...

  ROSELAND...HASTINGS...TRUMBULL...PROSSER...KENESAW...JUNIATA...

  HEARTWELL AND HANSEN.



WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING AND A WASHED OUT ROAD 4 

MILES WEST OF HOLDREGE AT 952 PM. WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED 1.50 

INCHES OF RAINFALL THROUGH 1000 PM WITH THIS LINE OF STORMS.



ADDITION RAINFALL OF ONE HALF TO ONE INCH WILL OCCUR ACROSS SOUTHERN 

KEARNEY AND SOUTHERN ADAMS COUNTIES THROUGH 1100 PM.



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

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY



MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS

BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.

NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO

ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.



TO REPORT FLOODING HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR

REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN HASTINGS.



LAT...LON 4071 9826 4071 9861 4065 9917 4036 9918

          4036 9825

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