EF1 tornado in Lancaster County, Nebraska

This tornado touched down along SW 27th street just south of West Rokeby Road and quickly produced EF1 damage as it moved northeast. Extensive tree damage was noted to several acreages along the path to the south of Rokeby Road. A horse boarding facility sustained significant damage where 6 small stable barns were destroyed. The tornado crossed north of Rokeby Road shortly after hitting the horse farm, moving more east, nearly parallel to Rokeby Road for about a mile. During this time, a few acreages sustained significant damage. Half of an outbuilding was completely destroyed as well as a large silo. The tornado continued east of SW 12th Street damaging large trees before lifting just east of South 1st street.

At the beginning of July, river flooding was still ongoing along portions of the Missouri River extending from east-central Nebraska/southwest Iowa to the southern Nebraska border. Most of the length of the river crested at the end of June, so the greatest impacts are addressed in June StormData. However, sections of I-29 and the I-29/I680 junction remained closed through the first week of July as flood waters receded. There were also riverfront properties in far southeast Nebraska that were flooded this first week of July as well.

On the morning of July 1st, a trough positioned over the Rockies ejected out into the central Plains. At the surface, a low pressure developed in the central High Plains in response to this upper level feature, with a quasi-stationary warm front draped from central Nebraska southeast into the lower Mississippi River Valley. Widespread showers and thunderstorms developed along and north of this frontal zone by the evening hours, resulting in widespread heavy rain across much of southeast Nebraska into southwest Iowa. Sporadic severe weather also occurred, primarily focused in Lincoln and surrounding areas. This included an EF-0 in Saline County and an EF-1 just southwest of Lincoln. Training thunderstorms produced flash flooding across much of the I-80 corridor between Lincoln and Omaha. A Flash Flood Emergency was issued for locations around Horseshoe Lake in Cass County due to water rapidly rising and trapping multiple people in their homes.