DROUGHT INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1055 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2008

...SEVERE DROUGHT CONDITIONS HAVE ENDED ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTH
CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

A PERSISTENT WET PATTERN HAS CONTINUED THIS SPRING AND EARLY THIS
SUMMER RESULTING IN RAINFALL TOTALS WELL ABOVE NORMAL. THE EXCESSIVE
AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL...HAVE ALLEVIATED DROUGHT CONDITIONS ACROSS
WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. AN ABRIDGED DROUGHT STATEMENT
WILL CONTINUE TO BE ISSUED UNTIL THE ONSET OF SEVERE DROUGHT
CONDITIONS. WHEN THE ONSET OF SEVERE DROUGHT CONDITIONS BEGIN...AN
EXPANDED DROUGHT INFORMATION STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED ON THE THIRD
THURSDAY OF THE MONTH.

QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS...IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ABOUT
THIS INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

CHRIS BUTTLER
CLIMATE SERVICES FOCAL POINT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
NORTH PLATTE NE
CHRISTOPHER.BUTTLER@NOAA.GOV

.RELATED WEB SITES...

LOCAL WEATHER...CLIMATE AND WATER INFORMATION
HTTP:://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/LBF

ADDITIONAL RIVER AND RESERVOIR INFORMATION
USGS - HTTP://WATER.USGS.GOV
CNPPD - HTTP://CNPPD.COM/LAKE_LEVELS.HTM

US DROUGHT MONITOR
HTTP://WWW.DROUGHT.UNL.EDU/DM/INDEX.HTML

CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER
HTTP://WWW.CPC.NCEP.NOAA.GOV

.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS...THE DROUGHT MONITOR IS A MULTI-AGENCY EFFORT
INVOLVING THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA
CENTER...THE USDA...STATE AND REGIONAL CENTER CLIMATOLOGISTS AND THE
DROUGHT MITIGATION CENTER. INFORMATION FOR THIS STATEMENT HAS BEEN
GATHERED FROM NWS AND FAA OBSERVATION SITES...STATE COOPERATIVE
EXTENSION SERVICES...USGS...AND THE CENTRAL NEBRASKA PUBLIC POWER
AND IRRIGATION DISTRICT.

.NEXT ISSUANCE...THIS PRODUCT WILL BE ISSUED ON THE THIRD THURSDAY
OF THE MONTH. THE NEXT ISSUANCE WILL BE JULY 17 2008.

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CLB