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Severe Thunderstorm and Heavy Rainfall Potential Continues

A low pressure center tracking across the Great Lakes and its associated cold front extending across the Southern Plains will focus occasional showers and thunderstorms through tonight. A few of these thunderstorms may become severe alongside heavy rainfall that may cause flash flooding; Portions of the Southern Plains would be the greatest threat for these hazards through tonight. Read More >

Republican River Flood of May 30, 1935

 This website is dedicated to preserving the history of the Republican River Flood of 1935.

 

To view annual precipitation charts for the following communities, click the link:

Benkelman, Nebraska
Culbertson, Nebraska
Haigler, Nebraska
Saint Francis, Kansas
Stratton, Nebraska 

To view handwritten weather logs from 1935, click the link: 

 

Alma, Nebraska

Arriba, Colorado Beaver City, Nebraska
Benkelman, Nebraska Burlington, Colorado Byers, Colorado
Calhan, Colorado Cambridge, Nebraska Cheyenne Wells, Colorado
Colorado Springs, Colorado Cope, Colorado Culbertson, Nebraska
Curtis, Nebraska Haigler, Nebraska Hayes Center, Nebraska
Holdrege, Nebraska Holyoke, Colorado Imperial, Nebraska
Lebanon, Nebraska Limon, Colorado Madrid, Nebraska
McCook, Nebraska Monument, Colorado Orleans, Nebraska
Red Cloud, Nebraska Sterling, Colorado Stratton, Colorado
Stratton, Nebraska Wauneta, Nebraska Wilsonville, Nebraska
Wray, Colorado Yuma, Colorado  



To view the annual and monthly Climatological Data click the link below

 

Colorado

Annual

May 1935

June 1935

Kansas

Annual

May 1935

June 1935

Nebraska

Annual

May 1935

June 1935