Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, May 2018
14 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 14
- Busiest day
- May 11, 20183 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 3, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cass, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson | 6 hr |
| May 10, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne and 18 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Buffalo, Chase and 40 more | 9 hr |
| May 11, 1:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Cass, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster and 6 more | 3 hr |
| May 11, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banner, Kimball, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 7 hr |
| May 17, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 7 hr |
| May 18, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Franklin, Furnas, Harlan | 5 hr |
| May 23, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 9 hr |
| May 27, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 7 hr |
| May 27, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Chase, Cherry, Deuel, Frontier, Garden and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banner, Kimball, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 7 hr |
| May 29, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cass, Douglas, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Nemaha and 4 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Banner County6
- Kimball County6
- Scotts Bluff County6
- Sioux County6
- Arthur County4
- Box Butte County4
- Chase County4
- Cherry County4
- Cheyenne County4
- Dawes County4
- Grant County4
- Hooker County4
- Keith County4
- McPherson County4
- Morrill County4
- Perkins County4
- Cass County3
- Johnson County3
- Nemaha County3
- Otoe County3
- Pawnee County3
- Deuel County3
- Frontier County3
- Garden County3
- Hayes County3
- Lincoln County3
- Logan County3
- Sheridan County3
- Thomas County3
- Dundy County3
- Hitchcock County3
- Red Willow County3
- Richardson County2
- Franklin County2
- Furnas County2
- Harlan County2
- Gage County2
- Jefferson County2
- Adams County1
- Blaine County1
32 more counties
- Brown County1
- Buffalo County1
- Clay County1
- Custer County1
- Dawson County1
- Fillmore County1
- Garfield County1
- Gosper County1
- Greeley County1
- Hall County1
- Hamilton County1
- Holt County1
- Howard County1
- Kearney County1
- Loup County1
- Merrick County1
- Nance County1
- Phelps County1
- Polk County1
- Rock County1
- Sherman County1
- Valley County1
- Webster County1
- Wheeler County1
- York County1
- Butler County1
- Lancaster County1
- Saline County1
- Saunders County1
- Seward County1
- Douglas County1
- Sarpy 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.