I’ve seen these videos before. The 2nd one, I believe the guy was filming the Tornado in his underwear which is funny to me- Violent Tornado coming honey, can you get me my pants, lol..
HR Paperstacks wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 8:39 am
I know it's been mentioned in other threads, but add in the flash flooding we got the other night with rivers running throughout the Old Market.
Agreed. I think what set Saturday night’s storm apart and made it such a rarity, was the intense and insane amount of rain that came in such a short time span- up to 4 inches in spots within a 1 hour or so- this overloaded the sewer drainage system so rapidly, it couldn’t handle it.. Thus causing dangerous flooding and property damage especially in the Old Market and parts of downtown we haven’t really ever seen in our lifetimes.. He!l, Saddle Creek Rd was essentially a river too..
We were fortunate, VERY fortunate there was no loss of life with this latest storm. Unlike a month ago when wind caused most all of the damage, this time it was massive water.. and as most of us know, water can be just as, if not more dangerous, than wind…
HR Paperstacks wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 8:39 am
I know it's been mentioned in other threads, but add in the flash flooding we got the other night with rivers running throughout the Old Market.
Agreed. I think what set Saturday night’s storm apart and made it such a rarity, was the intense and insane amount of rain that came in such a short time span- up to 4 inches in spots within a 1 hour or so- this overloaded the sewer drainage system so rapidly, it couldn’t handle it.. Thus causing dangerous flooding and property damage especially in the Old Market and parts of downtown we haven’t really ever seen in our lifetimes.. He!l, Saddle Creek Rd was essentially a river too..
We were fortunate, VERY fortunate there was no loss of life with this latest storm. Unlike a month ago when wind caused most all of the damage, this time it was massive water.. and as most of us know, water can be just as, if not more dangerous, than wind…
Ciao..LiO…Peace
I did the thing. I personally didn't think the overall rainfall rate was one of a kind, but the fact that perhaps the worst of it happened right over Downtown, combining with other factors obviously had a great affect on a lot of people.
Just want to clarify that the NWS at Eppley reported 1.76" for the event, 2.02" for the day (including the rainfall from the morning of August 7th), and 2.72" for the 48 hour period. My own personal rain gauge said 4.25", but I do believe rain blowing off of the house and the surrounding trees had a great affect on that measurement. But I can buy the 2-4". Obviously it was a pretty remarkable storm.
Brad wrote: Mon Aug 16, 2021 10:09 am
We got 3.4” in 1 hour and 15 min near 90th and Center. Ended up with water in the basement the night before we went on vacation.
The rain also caused a huge deposit of gravel on some of the neighborhood streets.
It was definitely a storm we won’t soon forget that’s for sure…
omaha.com wrote:“Off the charts” rainfall rates caused Omaha’s destructive flash flooding this summer, underscoring downtown’s vulnerability in the face of changing rainfall patterns and few options to control flash flooding.
David Pearson, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service, said radar indicates that rainfall rates briefly topped 5 inches an hour downtown on Aug. 7, something that would be considered rarer than a “1-in-500-year” storm. (“One-in-500” is an estimate of the odds of a storm occurring; it does not mean that the storm would occur only once every 500 years.)
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Louie wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:27 pm
5+ in an hour is absolutely bonkers. Very interesting article.
That was the rate, not the actual accumulation. We didn't get 5" in one hour, but perhaps we did get 2" in 20-30 minutes, on top of what preceded and proceeded the strongest part of that storm. Neither of which are insubstantial at all. It was a freak storm in that it affected a small and highly populated area so heavily, while it might have appeared to be a routine (albeit plenty heavy) severe thunderstorm for the rest of the Omaha metro.
Louie wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:27 pm
5+ in an hour is absolutely bonkers. Very interesting article.
That was the rate, not the actual accumulation. We didn't get 5" in one hour, but perhaps we did get 2" in 20-30 minutes, on top of what preceded and proceeded the strongest part of that storm. Neither of which are insubstantial at all. It was a freak storm in that it affected a small and highly populated area so heavily, while it might have appeared to be a routine (albeit plenty heavy) severe thunderstorm for the rest of the Omaha metro.
Really dating myself here, but the worst weather event I remember growing up was the Papio Creek flood of 1964---7 people were killed and there was a lot of property damage. The end result of that event was the creation of the Papio Watershed Project that created the series of dams and lakes (to control the flooding) that now dot West Omaha. I remember "L" St. was under water from 60th St. to around 74th. All of my grandparents (all born in the 1800's), had vivid memories if the 1913 Easter tornado. I was living in St. Louis when the '75 tornado cut Omaha in half----took me 2 days to get through on the phone.
Fantastic list ! very thorough. I wasn’t in Omaha during 1975 but it looked like a memorable weather year between the huge snowstorm and devastating 72nd st tornado. This storm we just had last Friday was an eye opener after a relatively quiet period for tornados in the last 10-15 years.
1975 will always go down for me as the year with historically awful weather. There were not one but two tornadoes that year. The 1970s in general featured crazy summer heat (1974 in particular) and wicked winter cold and/or blizzards (1971, 1975, 1977, 1978, plus if I recall 1982).
