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WGUS73 KGID 190025

FFSGID



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE

721 PM CDT MON APR 18 2005



NEC059-190530-

FILLMORE NE-

721 PM CDT MON APR 18 2005



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR FILLMORE 

COUNTY...



AT 717 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO

INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN.  THIS STORM WAS

LOCATED NEAR GENEVA...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTH OF YORK...MOVING

SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.



OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO 

EXETER...STRANG AND GENEVA.  RADAR ESTIMATES RAINFALL RATES OF 2 

TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR ARE OCCURRING IN FILLMORE COUNTY.  RADAR 

ESTIMATES 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN IN FILLMORE 

COUNTY BETWEEN GENEVA...FAIRMONT AND GRAFTON.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL 

CREEKS AND STREAMS...INCLUDING THE TURKEY CREEK...INDIAN CREEK...AND 

THE DRY SANDY CREEK.  COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE 

BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLOODING.



DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF 

RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.  NEVER 

DRIVE INTO ANY UNKNOWN DEPTH OF WATER.  TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.



LAT...LON 4064 9781 4047 9772 4110 9450 4178 9482



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