The Superior Express -

Record setting rainfall may not be what we first associate with severe weather in Nebraska but that is what parts of the state received on Monday, the first day of Nebraska’s Severe Weather Awareness Week . The special week continues through Friday.

For residents of the plains, spring often brings outbreaks of severe weather which may include thunderstorms, hail and tornadoes.

Nebraskans now have multiple ways to receive weather alerts. One of the first ways was the civil defense sirens which most communities still have. Fifty years ago Superior residents relied on a series of blasts fr...