Freeze Watches in Nebraska
120 freeze 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 freeze watches reaches back to 2005.
Freeze Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Freeze Watches
- 120
- Busiest year
- 201911 freeze watches
- Average year
- 6over 21 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.
- Buffalo County24
- Dundy County23
- Furnas County22
- Gosper County22
- Phelps County22
- Red Willow County22
- Dawson County21
- Howard County21
- Sherman County21
- Hitchcock County21
- Adams County20
- Greeley County20
- Hall County20
- Harlan County20
- Valley County20
- Clay County19
- Franklin County19
- Hamilton County19
- Kearney County19
- Merrick County19
- Polk County19
- Fillmore County18
- Nance County18
- Webster County18
- York County18
- Lancaster County18
- Seward County18
- Dodge County17
- Saline County17
- Nuckolls County16
- Thayer County16
- Butler County16
- Gage County16
- Jefferson County16
- Saunders County16
- Washington County16
- Douglas County15
- Sarpy County15
- Antelope County14
- Boone County14
53 more counties
- Cass County14
- Custer County14
- Frontier County14
- Grant County14
- Hayes County14
- Knox County14
- Lincoln County14
- Pierce County14
- Platte County14
- Cedar County13
- Colfax County13
- Garden County13
- Johnson County13
- Madison County13
- Nemaha County13
- Otoe County13
- Pawnee County13
- Richardson County13
- Stanton County13
- Arthur County12
- Blaine County12
- Burt County12
- Cherry County12
- Cuming County12
- Dawes County12
- Garfield County12
- Hooker County12
- Keith County12
- Logan County12
- McPherson County12
- Sheridan County12
- Thomas County12
- Thurston County12
- Wayne County12
- Boyd County11
- Brown County11
- Chase County11
- Holt County11
- Keya Paha County11
- Loup County11
- Morrill County11
- Rock County11
- Scotts Bluff County11
- Wheeler County11
- Deuel County11
- Banner County10
- Box Butte County10
- Perkins County10
- Cheyenne County9
- Kimball County8
- Sioux County8
- Dakota County4
- Dixon County4
The latest freeze watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 1:22 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | CYS | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 25 hr |
| May 4, 2:09 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 45 hr |
| Apr 16, 12:36 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Franklin, Furnas and 14 more | 34 hr |
| Apr 15, 5:35 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 41 hr |
| Apr 15, 12:27 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | LBF | Arthur, Chase, Custer, Deuel, Frontier, Garden and 9 more | 46 hr |
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.