Flash flooding can happen in an instant, especially when it’s nighttime and visibility is very low.

Greene County Sheriff Steve Haupert says law enforcement’s role during severe weather and flash flooding incidents, they usually go to the area that is most affected and communicate back with dispatch about what they are seeing.

“We give them the areas where the water is moving pretty good. If it’s four or five inches of fast moving water to move you into the ditch. In those areas, we try to contact secondary roads and they’ve been excellent coming out (and) when we’re out in it, they’re out in it. (They) are putting up the barricades and keeping people from traveling through those areas.”

He describes one situation he was in where flash flooding happened at Highway 25 and 330th Street last year.

“If it hadn’t been for the lightning flashes, I wouldn’t have realized that I was in two-foot of water and it was moving pretty fast. So I got a little excited to say the least and got caught on the Carroll County line. So I stayed there until the water receded.”

Raccoon Valley Radio’s Severe Weather Action Team provides live coverage anytime there is severe weather in Greene, Dallas and Guthrie counties.