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Freezing rain and ice began coating surfaces in Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri on Saturday, creating dangerous travel conditions along roadways and at airports. Troopers reported responding to ...
On March 18, Nebraska governor Pete Ricketts declared a state of emergency and stated that the floods caused "[t]he most extensive damage our state has ever experienced." [54] Flood damage in Nebraska has been estimated at over $1.3 billion, including "$449 million in damage to roads, levees and other infrastructure." Twenty-seven bridges were ...
The death toll associated with the flooding was 17. [1] Five deaths occurred in Missouri. Others were killed in a highway wreck due to heavy rain in Kentucky, and a 65-year-old woman in Ohio appeared to have drowned while checking on a sump pump in her home.
The effects of Hurricane Ike in inland North America, in September 2008, were unusually intense and included widespread damage across all or parts of eleven states – Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, [1] Pennsylvania, Tennessee and West Virginia, (not including Louisiana and Texas where the storm made landfall) and into parts of Ontario as Ike, which ...
Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday extended a May emergency declaration due to the potential of Missouri River flooding after the storm. “We have seen the tremendous, destructive force of flooding ...
The weather service also issued a severe thunderstorm watch for parts of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas through Thursday morning, after which forecasters said the storm will move to the east.
Missouri River flooding continues to cause more damage over the last decade. There have been major flooding events June - August 2011, December 2015 thru January 2016, and April - May 2017. [45] In March 2019 the Missouri River flooded almost every levee devastating countless farms and homes in Holt County, Missouri. The rise in water levels ...
Due to the abnormal shape of the storm on radar and the extremely strong winds, many called this an "inland hurricane." [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Notably, this storm had a defined eye akin to a tropical storm, which occurred alongside intense sustained winds of 70–90 mph (110–140 km/h) at the surface level, not associated with the bowing convection ...