Event narrative (NOAA)
Record setting rainfall caused extensive flooding over the Omaha Nebraska and Council Bluffs Iowa metro area and surrounding counties. Rainfall at Eppley Airfield in Omaha totaled 10.46 inches for the 24 hour period ending at 3 am cst 8/7/99, this was the most rainfall recorded in a 24 hour period in Omaha since 1900. The rain fell roughly in two periods, the first lasting from noon through 5 pm cst Friday 8/6/99 and the second beginning Friday evening around 7 pm cst continuing through 3 am Saturday morning. The heaviest rain was mainly confined to the eastern part of Omaha and into Pottawattamie county Iowa with amounts in the 8 to over 10 inch range. Rainfall tapered down in western Douglas county. Aksarben, located in the central part of Omaha, reported around 7 inches, Boystown
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.