Excessive Heat Watches in Nebraska
36 excessive heat 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 excessive heat watches reaches back to 2005.
Excessive Heat Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Excessive Heat Watches
- 36
- Busiest year
- 20116 excessive heat watches
- Average year
- 4over 10 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.
- Cass County12
- Douglas County12
- Lancaster County12
- Otoe County12
- Sarpy County12
- Saunders County12
- Washington County12
- Burt County11
- Dodge County11
- Gage County11
- Jefferson County11
- Johnson County11
- Nemaha County11
- Pawnee County11
- Richardson County11
- Seward County11
- Butler County10
- Colfax County10
- Platte County10
- Saline County10
- Cuming County9
- Thurston County9
- Antelope County8
- Boone County8
- Cedar County8
- Dakota County8
- Dixon County8
- Knox County8
- Madison County8
- Pierce County8
- Stanton County8
- Wayne County8
- Nuckolls County8
- Thayer County8
- Adams County7
- Clay County7
- Fillmore County7
- Greeley County7
- Hall County7
- Hamilton County7
41 more counties
- Howard County7
- Merrick County7
- Nance County7
- Polk County7
- Webster County7
- York County7
- Franklin County6
- Frontier County6
- Furnas County6
- Harlan County6
- Kearney County6
- Lincoln County6
- Boyd County5
- Buffalo County5
- Custer County5
- Dawson County5
- Garfield County5
- Gosper County5
- Hayes County5
- Holt County5
- Loup County5
- Phelps County5
- Sherman County5
- Valley County5
- Wheeler County5
- Blaine County4
- Brown County4
- Chase County4
- Cherry County4
- Keya Paha County4
- Logan County4
- Rock County4
- Thomas County4
- Keith County3
- Perkins County3
- Hitchcock County2
- Red Willow County2
- McPherson County2
- Arthur County1
- Deuel County1
- Garden 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.