Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, May 2026
9 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 16, 20262 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 15, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 20 more | 8 hr |
| May 16, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Chase, Cheyenne, Deuel, Dundy, Frontier and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 16, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Cass, Clay and 39 more | 9 hr |
| May 17, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dundy, Hitchcock | 3 hr |
| May 19, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Box Butte, Morrill, Scotts Bluff | 38 days |
| May 21, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill | 7 hr |
| May 24, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 13 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Morrill County4
- Colfax County3
- Cheyenne County3
- Butler County2
- Cass County2
- Cedar County2
- Cuming County2
- Dakota County2
- Dixon County2
- Dodge County2
- Douglas County2
- Gage County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Lancaster County2
- Nemaha County2
- Otoe County2
- Pawnee County2
- Richardson County2
- Saline County2
- Sarpy County2
- Saunders County2
- Seward County2
- Stanton County2
- Thurston County2
- Washington County2
- Wayne County2
- Dundy County2
- Hitchcock County2
- Adams County2
- Boone County2
- Buffalo County2
- Clay County2
- Dawson County2
- Fillmore County2
- Franklin County2
- Furnas County2
- Gosper County2
- Hall County2
- Hamilton County2
46 more counties
- Harlan County2
- Howard County2
- Kearney County2
- Merrick County2
- Nuckolls County2
- Phelps County2
- Platte County2
- Sherman County2
- Thayer County2
- Webster County2
- Box Butte County2
- Scotts Bluff County2
- Banner County2
- Kimball County2
- Burt County1
- Arthur County1
- Chase County1
- Deuel County1
- Frontier County1
- Garden County1
- Grant County1
- Hayes County1
- Hooker County1
- Keith County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- McPherson County1
- Perkins County1
- Red Willow County1
- Thomas County1
- Custer County1
- Greeley County1
- Nance County1
- Polk County1
- Valley County1
- York County1
- Antelope County1
- Boyd County1
- Garfield County1
- Holt County1
- Knox County1
- Madison County1
- Pierce County1
- Wheeler County1
- Dawes County1
- Sioux County1
Nearby
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.