Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, May 1997
5 severe thunderstorm watches in May 1997. 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 severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 7, 19971 severe thunderstorm watches
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 7, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burt, Cass, Dodge, Douglas, Gage, Jefferson and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 16, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cass, Douglas, Fillmore, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Cedar and 36 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cass, Clay, Fillmore, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson and 9 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buffalo, Dawson, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper and 7 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jefferson County4
- Saline County4
- Seward County4
- Thayer County4
- Cass County3
- Gage County3
- Johnson County3
- Lancaster County3
- Nemaha County3
- Otoe County3
- Pawnee County3
- Fillmore County3
- Nuckolls County3
- Douglas County2
- Richardson County2
- Sarpy County2
- Saunders County2
- Washington County2
- Buffalo County2
- Clay County2
- Franklin County2
- Harlan County2
- Kearney County2
- Phelps County2
- York County2
- Burt County1
- Dodge County1
- Adams County1
- Antelope County1
- Boone County1
- Butler County1
- Cedar County1
- Colfax County1
- Cuming County1
- Dakota County1
- Dixon County1
- Garfield County1
- Greeley County1
- Hall County1
- Hamilton County1
24 more counties
- Holt County1
- Howard County1
- Knox County1
- Madison County1
- Merrick County1
- Nance County1
- Pierce County1
- Platte County1
- Polk County1
- Sherman County1
- Stanton County1
- Thurston County1
- Valley County1
- Wayne County1
- Webster County1
- Wheeler County1
- Dawson County1
- Frontier County1
- Furnas County1
- Gosper County1
- Hayes County1
- Hitchcock County1
- Lincoln County1
- Red Willow County1
Nearby
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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.