Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Dorchester Area Receives Up To 5" In 24 Hours


Since yesterday morning, Dorchester has received more than 3.5 inches of rain in gauges in town.  

That's considerably less than the totals reported in parts of Crete and Lincoln, but it's still a sizable amount of precipitation for the end of September.  

Area corn and soybean fields will be wet for days to come.  More rain is possible today and Thursday.

Since Aug. 28 -- just 35 days -- Dorchester and the surrounding area have received around 8.5" to 9" of rain.  

Parts of Lincoln 9 inches of rain in parts of Lincoln.  In Crete, rainfalls topped 6 inches.

Unofficial rainfall totals reported to the National Weather Service included 8.9 inches at the Lincoln wastewater treatment plant, 8.5 inches near West O and 20th streets, and 7.2 inches near 56th and Holdrege streets, according to the Journal Star.  (The LJS photo above is from Holmes Lake in Lincoln.)

Flood warnings are up for several creeks and rivers, including the Big Blue River and Turkey Creek.

Here are the area rainfall totals since Tuesday morning:

Crete (in town) ................................ 6.42"
Dorchester -- 4.5 miles SSE ............ 5.00"
Wilber -- 4.1 W ............................... 4.85"
Western -- 4.4 NNE ........................ 4.40"
Wilber -- 7.0 WSW ......................... 4.31"
Western -- 1.2 SE .......................... . 3.56"
Tobias -- 1.8 E ................................ 3.30"
Dorchester -- 2.1 NW ..................... 3.10"
Friend -- 3.4 E ................................ 2.72"
Friend -- 4.8 SSE ............................ 2.69"
DeWitt -- 0.3 WNW ....................... 1.52"

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