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FLASH FLOOD WARNING for s.w. Pottawattamie County

Weather

August 20th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Omaha/Valley Nebraska
Issued by National Weather Service Hastings NE
806 AM CDT MON AUG 20 2018

The National Weather Service in Omaha has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  Southwestern Pottawattamie County in southwestern Iowa...
  Eastern Douglas County in east central Nebraska...

* Until 200 PM CDT.

* At 801 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated that heavy rain had fallen
  across the warned area...with rain expected to continue this
  morning. Radar estimates that amounts of 2 to 5 inches have
  already fallen. There have been reports of street flooding in
  Council Bluffs...with water half way up on some cars.

* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
  Omaha, Council Bluffs, Bellevue, La Vista, Ralston, Treynor,
  Underwood, Macedonia, Carter Lake, Crescent, McClelland, Old Town
  Park, Lake Manawa State Park, Hitchcock Nature Center and Narrows
  River Park.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Turn around, don`t drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.

Please report flooding to your local law enforcement agency when you
can do so safely.