Alert archive / Nebraska / 1987
Weather alerts in Nebraska, May 1987
32 weather alerts in May 1987, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1987. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 32
- Warnings
- 32
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 20, 19877 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Kearney | 44 min |
| May 2, 7:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Buffalo | 67 min |
| May 16, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Dawes, Sioux | 33 min |
| May 17, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln | 42 min |
| May 19, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams, Hall | 25 min |
| May 19, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Hamilton | 66 min |
| May 19, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Clay, Hamilton | 26 min |
| May 19, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 22 min |
| May 19, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Sarpy | 43 min |
| May 19, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Platte | 29 min |
| May 20, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Stanton | 62 min |
| May 20, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Wayne | 32 min |
| May 23, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Scotts Bluff | 45 min |
| May 23, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Dawes, Sioux | 69 min |
| May 25, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt | 29 min |
| May 26, 8:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Sarpy | 4 hr |
| May 26, 8:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Cass | 4 hr |
| May 26, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Banner, Scotts Bluff | 56 min |
| May 26, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Sioux | 56 min |
| May 27, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Richardson | 30 min |
| May 29, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keya Paha | 28 min |
| May 29, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Sioux | 56 min |
| May 29, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 51 min |
| May 29, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 45 min |
| May 30, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, Merrick, Polk | 68 min |
| May 30, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Madison, Stanton | 39 min |
| May 30, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Hall, Hamilton, Howard, Merrick | 60 min |
| May 30, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Polk | 60 min |
| May 30, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Polk, York | 30 min |
| May 30, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Butler | 25 min |
| May 30, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Sarpy | 18 min |
| May 30, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Douglas, Sarpy | 34 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 20 |
| Tornado Warning | 9 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hamilton County5
- Sioux County4
- Sarpy County4
- Buffalo County3
- Polk County3
- Dawes County2
- Hall County2
- Clay County2
- Stanton County2
- Scotts Bluff County2
- Cass County2
- Box Butte County2
- Cherry County2
- Merrick County2
- Kearney County1
- Keith County1
- Lincoln County1
- Adams County1
- Platte County1
- Wayne County1
- Burt County1
- Banner County1
- Richardson County1
- Keya Paha County1
- Madison County1
- Howard County1
- York County1
- Butler County1
- Douglas County1
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.