Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, May 1998
14 severe thunderstorm watches in May 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 14
- Busiest day
- May 15, 19982 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 10, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 7:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cass, Douglas, Gage, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha and 6 more | 4 hr |
| May 15, 9:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burt, Cuming, Dakota, Dodge, Thurston, Washington | 5 hr |
| May 19, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Buffalo and 41 more | 6 hr |
| May 20, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burt, Cass, Cuming, Dodge, Douglas, Gage and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 20, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Antelope, Arthur, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Cedar and 18 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 9:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Cass, Clay, Custer, Dawson and 27 more | 5 hr |
| May 22, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chase, Dundy, Hayes, Hitchcock, Perkins | 5 hr |
| May 22, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Franklin, Furnas, Harlan, Hitchcock, Nuckolls, Red Willow and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Arthur, Blaine, Boone, Brown and 58 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gage, Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson | 5 hr |
| May 29, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Garden and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 4:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd, Keya Paha | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Johnson County5
- Cass County4
- Gage County4
- Lancaster County4
- Nemaha County4
- Otoe County4
- Pawnee County4
- Richardson County4
- Washington County4
- Cuming County4
- Custer County4
- Hooker County4
- McPherson County4
- Sherman County4
- Banner County3
- Box Butte County3
- Dawes County3
- Morrill County3
- Scotts Bluff County3
- Douglas County3
- Sarpy County3
- Saunders County3
- Burt County3
- Dodge County3
- Thurston County3
- Adams County3
- Antelope County3
- Blaine County3
- Boone County3
- Brown County3
- Buffalo County3
- Clay County3
- Dawson County3
- Fillmore County3
- Garfield County3
- Gosper County3
- Greeley County3
- Hall County3
- Hamilton County3
- Hayes County3
53 more counties
- Howard County3
- Kearney County3
- Lincoln County3
- Logan County3
- Loup County3
- Merrick County3
- Nuckolls County3
- Phelps County3
- Polk County3
- Rock County3
- Saline County3
- Seward County3
- Thayer County3
- Thomas County3
- Valley County3
- Webster County3
- Wheeler County3
- York County3
- Arthur County3
- Cheyenne County2
- Deuel County2
- Garden County2
- Kimball County2
- Sheridan County2
- Sioux County2
- Dakota County2
- Butler County2
- Colfax County2
- Frontier County2
- Jefferson County2
- Madison County2
- Nance County2
- Platte County2
- Stanton County2
- Wayne County2
- Cedar County2
- Holt County2
- Keith County2
- Pierce County2
- Franklin County2
- Furnas County2
- Harlan County2
- Chase County2
- Hitchcock County2
- Perkins County2
- Grant County2
- Knox County1
- Dundy County1
- Red Willow County1
- Dixon County1
- Cherry County1
- Boyd County1
- Keya Paha County1
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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.