Alert archive / Nebraska / Red Flag Warnings / 2026
Red Flag Warnings in Nebraska, May 2026
15 red flag warnings in May 2026. 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 red flag warnings reaches back to 2005.
Red Flag Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 15
- Busiest day
- May 13, 20265 red flag warnings
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 2, 3:09 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Dawes, Morrill, Sioux | 6 hr |
| May 10, 12:24 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LBF | Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 20 more | 34 hr |
| May 10, 12:46 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Franklin, Furnas, Gosper, Greeley and 7 more | 33 hr |
| May 11, 3:07 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Dakota, Dixon | 30 hr |
| May 11, 10:16 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Franklin, Furnas, Gosper, Greeley and 7 more | 23 hr |
| May 11, 11:03 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Antelope, Cedar, Knox, Pierce, Wayne | 22 hr |
| May 12, 12:42 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LBF | Custer, Garfield, Holt, Loup, Wheeler | 20 hr |
| May 12, 9:17 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps and 2 more | 24 hr |
| May 12, 9:24 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LBF | Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Chase, Cherry, Custer and 18 more | 48 hr |
| May 13, 1:50 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | CYS | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 65 hr |
| May 13, 12:15 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Antelope, Boone, Cedar, Cuming, Knox, Madison and 4 more | 31 hr |
| May 13, 1:54 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Dakota, Dixon | 30 hr |
| May 15, 12:27 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LBF | Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Chase, Cherry, Deuel and 12 more | 7 hr |
| May 17, 1:58 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | GID | Franklin, Harlan | 18 hr |
| May 26, 11:00 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | LBF | Arthur, Cherry, Deuel, Garden, Grant, Keith and 1 more | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Arthur County4
- Cherry County4
- Deuel County4
- Garden County4
- Grant County4
- Keith County4
- Sheridan County4
- Harlan County4
- Blaine County3
- Brown County3
- Chase County3
- Custer County3
- Garfield County3
- Hayes County3
- Holt County3
- Hooker County3
- Lincoln County3
- Logan County3
- Loup County3
- McPherson County3
- Perkins County3
- Rock County3
- Thomas County3
- Wheeler County3
- Buffalo County3
- Dawson County3
- Franklin County3
- Furnas County3
- Gosper County3
- Phelps County3
- Sherman County3
- Valley County3
- Box Butte County2
- Dawes County2
- Morrill County2
- Sioux County2
- Frontier County2
- Greeley County2
- Hall County2
- Howard County2
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.