Alert archive / Nebraska / 1997
Weather alerts in Nebraska, May 1997
46 weather alerts in May 1997, 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 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 46
- Warnings
- 41
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 7, 199723 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 5, 2:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 18 min |
| May 6, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 46 min |
| May 6, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 62 min |
| May 6, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Brown | 61 min |
| May 6, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Blaine, Brown | 52 min |
| May 6, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup | 65 min |
| May 6, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 47 min |
| May 6, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Valley | 40 min |
| May 6, 10:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Sherman | 31 min |
| May 6, 10:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 36 min |
| May 6, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Valley | 22 min |
| May 6, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman | 40 min |
| May 6, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Howard | 55 min |
| May 7, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Howard | 44 min |
| May 7, 4:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Wayne | 46 min |
| May 7, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burt, Cass, Dodge, Douglas, Gage, Jefferson and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Douglas | 64 min |
| May 7, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Sarpy | 47 min |
| May 7, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Pawnee | 61 min |
| May 7, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Nemaha | 49 min |
| May 7, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 66 min |
| May 7, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 47 min |
| May 7, 4:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Gage | 39 min |
| May 7, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Richardson | 61 min |
| May 7, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Johnson, Otoe | 65 min |
| May 16, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 39 min |
| May 16, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cass, Douglas, Fillmore, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 16, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage | 18 min |
| May 16, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Richardson | 33 min |
| May 17, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 59 min |
| May 17, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phelps | 44 min |
| May 17, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 40 min |
| May 17, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Cedar and 36 more | 5 hr |
| May 17, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Knox | 61 min |
| May 17, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Richardson | 47 min |
| May 23, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cass, Clay, Fillmore, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson and 9 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Kimball | 31 min |
| May 24, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Kimball | 30 min |
| May 24, 8:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CYS | Boyd | 4 hr |
| May 24, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Kimball | 48 min |
| May 24, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Banner, Kimball | 33 min |
| May 24, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Banner, Kimball | 27 min |
| May 24, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Kimball | 49 min |
| May 24, 10:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CYS | Banner, Scotts Bluff | 111 min |
| May 25, 12:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CYS | Kimball | 4 hr |
| May 26, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buffalo, Dawson, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper and 7 more | 6 hr |
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 | 30 |
| Tornado Warning | 8 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kimball County7
- Lancaster County6
- Gage County6
- Richardson County5
- Jefferson County4
- Johnson County4
- Nemaha County4
- Otoe County4
- Pawnee County4
- Saline County4
- Seward County4
- Thayer County4
- Brown County3
- Valley County3
- Sherman County3
- Hall County3
- Howard County3
- Cass County3
- Douglas County3
- Sarpy County3
- Fillmore County3
- Nuckolls County3
- Phelps County3
- Buffalo County3
- Banner County3
- Blaine County2
- Custer County2
- Wayne County2
- Saunders County2
- Washington County2
- Holt County2
- Clay County2
- Franklin County2
- Harlan County2
- Kearney County2
- Knox County2
- York County2
- Cherry County1
- Loup County1
- Burt County1
34 more counties
- Dodge County1
- Sheridan County1
- Adams County1
- Antelope County1
- Boone County1
- Butler County1
- Cedar County1
- Colfax County1
- Cuming County1
- Dakota County1
- Dixon County1
- Garfield County1
- Greeley County1
- Hamilton County1
- Madison County1
- Merrick County1
- Nance County1
- Pierce County1
- Platte County1
- Polk County1
- Stanton County1
- Thurston County1
- Webster County1
- Wheeler County1
- Boyd County1
- Scotts Bluff County1
- Dawson County1
- Frontier County1
- Furnas County1
- Gosper County1
- Hayes County1
- Hitchcock County1
- Lincoln County1
- Red Willow 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.