Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2024
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, May 2024
16 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 16
- Busiest day
- May 19, 20243 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 1, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Chase, Clay, Dundy, Fillmore, Franklin and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 1, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha, Otoe and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Chase, Clay, Custer, Dawson and 23 more | 7 hr |
| May 3, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha, Otoe and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne and 18 more | 7 hr |
| May 19, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dundy, Furnas, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 4 hr |
| May 19, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson | 8 hr |
| May 20, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff | 6 hr |
| May 20, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler, Cass and 37 more | 5 hr |
| May 20, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler and 47 more | 9 hr |
| May 23, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 19 more | 8 hr |
| May 23, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler and 46 more | 7 hr |
| May 24, 1:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gage, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson | 4 hr |
| May 25, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Chase, Clay, Custer, Dawson and 28 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cass, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha and 5 more | 4 hr |
| May 29, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cheyenne, Dawes and 11 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Johnson County7
- Otoe County7
- Adams County6
- Chase County6
- Clay County6
- Fillmore County6
- Franklin County6
- Furnas County6
- Harlan County6
- Kearney County6
- Nuckolls County6
- Phelps County6
- Thayer County6
- Webster County6
- Gage County6
- Jefferson County6
- Lancaster County6
- Nemaha County6
- Saline County6
- Dundy County5
- Frontier County5
- Gosper County5
- Hayes County5
- Hitchcock County5
- Red Willow County5
- Pawnee County5
- Richardson County5
- Buffalo County5
- Hall County5
- Hamilton County5
- Howard County5
- Merrick County5
- Polk County5
- Sherman County5
- York County5
- Seward County5
- Custer County4
- Dawson County4
- Lincoln County4
- Cass County4
53 more counties
- Greeley County4
- Nance County4
- Valley County4
- Arthur County3
- Banner County3
- Cheyenne County3
- Deuel County3
- Garden County3
- Grant County3
- Keith County3
- Kimball County3
- Logan County3
- McPherson County3
- Morrill County3
- Perkins County3
- Scotts Bluff County3
- Boone County3
- Burt County3
- Butler County3
- Colfax County3
- Cuming County3
- Dodge County3
- Douglas County3
- Madison County3
- Platte County3
- Sarpy County3
- Saunders County3
- Stanton County3
- Thurston County3
- Washington County3
- Box Butte County2
- Cherry County2
- Dawes County2
- Hooker County2
- Sheridan County2
- Sioux County2
- Thomas County2
- Antelope County2
- Garfield County2
- Pierce County2
- Wayne County2
- Wheeler County2
- Blaine County1
- Boyd County1
- Brown County1
- Holt County1
- Keya Paha County1
- Loup County1
- Rock County1
- Cedar County1
- Dakota County1
- Dixon County1
- Knox 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.