| Areas of heavy rainfall developed late Monday evening, May 26th and persisted into early Tuesday morning, May 27th. The areas of localized heavy rainfall were noted just to the north of a stationary frontal boundary which stretched from west to east across Kansas. The heaviest rainfall amounts occurred over parts of Lincoln, Logan, Custer, Blaine, Loup, Garfield and Wheeler counties of Western and North Central Nebraska. The first image above shows the banded nature of this heavy rainfall on the storm total precipitation image obtained from the WSR-88D Doppler radar at Thedford. The second image shows an areal impact as mapped by Graphical Forecast Editor software on the National Weather Service AWIPS workstations. |
Location / 24 Hour Precipitation Amount (ending at 700 AM May 27th)
Broken Bow / 1.94 inches
North Platte Airport / 1.69 inches
Taylor / 1.38 inches
Ericson / 1.25 inches
Anselmo / 1.20 inches
Wallace / 1.20 inches
Chambers / 0.95 of an inch
Eustis / 0.63 of an inch
Gordon / 0.59 of an inch
Mason City / 0.57 of an inch
Madrid / 0.45 of an inch
Wellfleet / 0.40 of an inch
Medicine Creek / 0.23 of an inch
Below are 24 Hour rainfall amounts as reported by the Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network - NeRain
Location
Precipitation Amount
Broken Bow 2.4 N
1.87 inches
North Platte 0.9 ENE
1.79 inches
North Platte 2.4 SW
1.74 inches
Merna 5.0 NNW
1.28 inches
Wellfleet 7.6 NNE
1.01 inches
Merna 11.4 W
0.99 of an inch
Haigler 25.5 NNE
0.98 of an inch
North Platte 6.6 SSW
0.97 of an inch
Anselmo 11.8 WSW
0.96 of an inch
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