Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, May 2016
15 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 15
- Busiest day
- May 7, 20162 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, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chase, Dundy, Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 9 hr |
| May 7, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Cheyenne, Deuel, Garden, Keith and 4 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Blaine, Brown, Buffalo, Cherry, Clay and 26 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jefferson, Saline, Seward | 3 hr |
| May 9, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Burt, Butler, Cass, Clay and 36 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Clay, Colfax and 26 more | 6 hr |
| May 11, 3:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cass, Douglas, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster and 8 more | 5 hr |
| May 22, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chase, Dawson, Dundy, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boyd, Garfield, Holt, Knox, Loup and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Chase, Cherry, Custer and 11 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gage, Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson | 6 hr |
| May 24, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Blaine, Buffalo, Custer, Dawson, Franklin and 17 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler and 41 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Fillmore, Gage, Jefferson, Nuckolls, Saline and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo, Chase and 32 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Frontier County6
- Buffalo County6
- Phelps County6
- Jefferson County6
- Saline County6
- Gage County6
- Adams County5
- Clay County5
- Dawson County5
- Fillmore County5
- Gosper County5
- Hall County5
- Howard County5
- Kearney County5
- Thayer County5
- Seward County5
- Harlan County5
- Chase County4
- Hayes County4
- Lincoln County4
- Perkins County4
- Blaine County4
- Custer County4
- Garfield County4
- Greeley County4
- Hamilton County4
- Logan County4
- Loup County4
- Merrick County4
- Nance County4
- Polk County4
- Sherman County4
- Thomas County4
- Valley County4
- Wheeler County4
- York County4
- Franklin County4
- Lancaster County4
- Nuckolls County4
- Saunders County4
48 more counties
- Webster County4
- Furnas County4
- Dundy County3
- Hitchcock County3
- Red Willow County3
- Arthur County3
- Keith County3
- Brown County3
- Cherry County3
- Holt County3
- Rock County3
- Butler County3
- Colfax County3
- Cuming County3
- Dodge County3
- Johnson County3
- Madison County3
- Nemaha County3
- Pawnee County3
- Platte County3
- Richardson County3
- Stanton County3
- Deuel County2
- Garden County2
- Burt County2
- Cass County2
- Douglas County2
- Otoe County2
- Sarpy County2
- Thurston County2
- Wayne County2
- Boone County2
- Antelope County2
- Boyd County2
- Knox County2
- Grant County2
- Hooker County2
- Keya Paha County2
- McPherson County2
- Banner County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Kimball County1
- Morrill County1
- Washington County1
- Cedar County1
- Dakota County1
- Dixon County1
- Pierce 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.