Blizzard Watches in Nebraska
26 blizzard watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of blizzard watches reaches back to 2005.
Blizzard Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Watches
- 26
- Busiest year
- 20074 blizzard watches
- Average year
- 2over 11 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hitchcock County6
- Dundy County6
- Dixon County6
- Red Willow County5
- Dakota County5
- Buffalo County4
- Dawson County4
- Sherman County4
- Valley County4
- Cherry County3
- Frontier County3
- Hayes County3
- Hooker County3
- Lincoln County3
- Logan County3
- McPherson County3
- Thomas County3
- Furnas County3
- Gosper County3
- Greeley County3
- Howard County3
- Nance County3
- Phelps County3
- Antelope County3
- Boone County3
- Burt County3
- Cedar County3
- Cuming County3
- Knox County3
- Madison County3
- Pierce County3
- Platte County3
- Stanton County3
- Thurston County3
- Wayne County3
- Adams County2
- Arthur County2
- Blaine County2
- Brown County2
- Chase County2
51 more counties
- Clay County2
- Custer County2
- Deuel County2
- Fillmore County2
- Franklin County2
- Grant County2
- Hall County2
- Hamilton County2
- Harlan County2
- Kearney County2
- Keith County2
- Keya Paha County2
- Loup County2
- Merrick County2
- Nuckolls County2
- Perkins County2
- Polk County2
- Rock County2
- Thayer County2
- Webster County2
- York County2
- Butler County2
- Cass County2
- Colfax County2
- Dodge County2
- Douglas County2
- Gage County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Lancaster County2
- Nemaha County2
- Otoe County2
- Pawnee County2
- Richardson County2
- Saline County2
- Sarpy County2
- Saunders County2
- Seward County2
- Washington County2
- Banner County2
- Box Butte County2
- Cheyenne County2
- Dawes County2
- Kimball County2
- Morrill County2
- Scotts Bluff County2
- Sioux County2
- Boyd County1
- Garden County1
- Holt County1
- Sheridan County1
Nearby
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.