High Wind Watches in Nebraska
303 high wind 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 high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 303
- Busiest year
- 202530 high wind watches
- Average year
- 14over 22 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.
- Kimball County93
- Banner County92
- Cheyenne County85
- Scotts Bluff County84
- Morrill County76
- Box Butte County73
- Sioux County64
- Dawes County62
- Dundy County59
- Hitchcock County52
- Garden County48
- Keith County48
- Deuel County46
- Cherry County44
- Red Willow County44
- Arthur County43
- Chase County43
- Perkins County43
- Sheridan County43
- Grant County42
- Hooker County41
- McPherson County41
- Thomas County40
- Blaine County38
- Brown County37
- Logan County37
- Hayes County36
- Lincoln County36
- Rock County36
- Keya Paha County35
- Loup County35
- Custer County34
- Dawson County34
- Frontier County34
- Gosper County34
- Phelps County34
- Sherman County34
- Buffalo County33
- Furnas County33
- Harlan County33
53 more counties
- Valley County33
- Greeley County32
- Howard County32
- Kearney County32
- Franklin County31
- Hall County31
- Adams County30
- Garfield County30
- Holt County28
- Webster County28
- Wheeler County28
- Boyd County27
- Merrick County25
- Nance County25
- Hamilton County22
- Clay County21
- Polk County20
- York County20
- Nuckolls County19
- Fillmore County18
- Boone County17
- Madison County17
- Platte County17
- Stanton County17
- Antelope County16
- Butler County16
- Colfax County16
- Pierce County16
- Seward County16
- Thayer County16
- Wayne County16
- Cedar County15
- Cuming County15
- Knox County15
- Lancaster County14
- Saline County14
- Dixon County13
- Dodge County13
- Jefferson County13
- Saunders County13
- Burt County12
- Dakota County12
- Douglas County12
- Sarpy County12
- Thurston County12
- Cass County11
- Washington County11
- Gage County9
- Otoe County7
- Johnson County6
- Nemaha County6
- Pawnee County6
- Richardson County6
The latest high wind watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 1:20 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | CYS | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff and 1 more | 50 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:48 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | CYS | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 13, 12:49 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 23 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:52 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | LBF | Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 20 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:49 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 18 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:44 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | OAX | Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 24 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 11, 9:56 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | GID | Greeley, Hall, Hamilton, Howard, Merrick, Nance and 4 more | 14 hr |
| Mar 11, 9:54 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | OAX | Butler, Cass, Douglas, Lancaster, Sarpy, Saunders and 1 more | 13 hr |
| Mar 11, 12:16 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | LBF | Arthur, Cherry, Deuel, Garden, Grant, Hooker and 3 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 10, 11:57 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | FSD | Dakota, Dixon | 21 hr |
| Mar 9, 3:02 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | CYS | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 45 hr |
| Feb 23, 12:55 PM CST | High Wind Watch | CYS | Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball, Scotts Bluff | 25 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. Rebuilt daily.