One Week Later, More Thunderstorms, Wind and Hail

BEATRICE -  One week after torrential rains, another bout of thunderstorms hit parts of southeast Nebraska and northeast Kansas.

A flash flood warning was issued early Saturday morning for parts of Lancaster, Saline and Gage Counties. 

Water flowed across Highway 103 north of Wilber, but around 7:30 a.m., law enforcement reported the roadway about 3.5 miles north of Wilber had reopened.

Flooding of county roads occurred along Turkey Creek near Wilber. Water levels on county roads and very small streams were expected to drop through the morning hours.  Just before two a.m. Saturday, water was reported over a roadway two miles west of Brock, Nebraska.

In Belleville and Agenda, Kansas, dime-to-quarter-sized hail was reported Friday night during a storm warning for Republic and Washington Counties. Several northeast Kansas communities receive two to five-and-a-half inches of rain.  One observer near Glasco, Kansas estimated seven inches of rain. Highway 24 near Glasco was covered with water spilling out of ditches.

A 70-mile-per-hour wind gust near Clyde, Kansas reportedly blew a law enforcement vehicle off a road.  Tree limbs were downed by strong winds in the community.

Another round of severe weather early Sunday morning brought heavy rain to some areas of Southeast Nebraska.  The area around Geneva, Belvidere, Bruning, Carleton and Strang received two-to-three inches of rain.  Water running over a road along the Fillmore-Thayer County line briefly made the road impassable.

Between three a.m. and four-thirty a.m. Sunday, one-and-a-quarter inches of rain fell at KWBE, in Beatrice.