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Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 1998
176 tornado warnings in 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.
Tornado Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 176
- Busiest month
- June68 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- May 22, 199823 tornado warnings
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 7:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LBF | Arthur | 62 min |
| Mar 28, 8:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LBF | McPherson | 63 min |
| Mar 28, 9:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hooker | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 9:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LBF | Thomas | 63 min |
| Apr 12, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Washington | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Gage, Pawnee | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Johnson | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hall | 23 min |
| Apr 14, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Seward | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hall | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Butler, Seward | 35 min |
| May 11, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Sherman | 42 min |
| May 11, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Howard | 64 min |
| May 11, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hall | 44 min |
| May 11, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams | 47 min |
| May 11, 7:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Merrick | 38 min |
| May 11, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton, Merrick | 41 min |
| May 11, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton, Merrick, Polk, York | 47 min |
| May 11, 9:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Thayer | 27 min |
| May 11, 9:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Jefferson | 61 min |
| May 15, 8:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Gage | 47 min |
| May 15, 8:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Lancaster, Otoe | 65 min |
| May 15, 12:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore, York | 62 min |
| May 15, 12:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Polk | 43 min |
| May 15, 1:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Platte | 48 min |
| May 15, 1:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Madison, Stanton | 46 min |
| May 19, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant, Hooker | 64 min |
| May 19, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Garden | 66 min |
| May 19, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hooker | 65 min |
| May 19, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | McPherson | 64 min |
| May 19, 10:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Howard | 50 min |
| May 19, 11:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Howard | 46 min |
| May 20, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Morrill | 31 min |
| May 20, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Morrill | 31 min |
| May 20, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 31 min |
| May 20, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Deuel, Garden | 64 min |
| May 21, 8:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson, Gosper | 60 min |
| May 21, 9:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Gosper | 60 min |
| May 21, 9:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo | 63 min |
| May 21, 9:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson | 33 min |
| May 21, 10:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo | 63 min |
| May 21, 11:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 30 min |
| May 21, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Scotts Bluff | 35 min |
| May 21, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier | 34 min |
| May 21, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Perkins | 32 min |
| May 21, 7:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phelps | 38 min |
| May 21, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Gosper | 28 min |
| May 21, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 35 min |
| May 21, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier | 32 min |
| May 21, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Kearney | 50 min |
| May 21, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Chase, Perkins | 62 min |
| May 21, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper, Phelps | 31 min |
| May 21, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hayes | 66 min |
| May 21, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Kearney, Phelps | 30 min |
| May 21, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hayes | 66 min |
| May 21, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams, Kearney | 29 min |
| May 21, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phelps | 29 min |
| May 21, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier | 64 min |
| May 21, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Kearney | 33 min |
| May 21, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier | 66 min |
| May 21, 10:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams, Kearney | 31 min |
| May 21, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Gosper | 45 min |
| May 21, 11:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Gosper, Phelps | 43 min |
| May 21, 11:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Kearney, Phelps | 48 min |
| May 22, 12:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 33 min |
| May 22, 12:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 19 min |
| May 22, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 50 min |
| May 23, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Loup | 35 min |
| May 23, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Garfield | 65 min |
| May 23, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Valley | 43 min |
| May 23, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Greeley | 33 min |
| May 24, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Dodge | 49 min |
| May 24, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Washington | 50 min |
| May 28, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cedar | 31 min |
| May 28, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Dakota, Dixon | 33 min |
| May 28, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Dakota | 18 min |
| May 28, 10:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Burt | 62 min |
| Jun 7, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Chase | 35 min |
| Jun 9, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Kimball | 18 min |
| Jun 9, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball | 17 min |
| Jun 9, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Deuel | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 10:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hayes | 33 min |
| Jun 9, 10:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier | 34 min |
| Jun 10, 5:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 9:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cass, Lancaster | 34 min |
| Jun 11, 10:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cass | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Sioux | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Franklin | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Webster | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Gosper | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Webster | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson, Phelps | 38 min |
| Jun 13, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Thayer | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Jefferson | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Gage | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Pawnee | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams, Webster | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Richardson | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 9:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Pawnee | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 10:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Jefferson, Saline | 49 min |
| Jun 17, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Boone | 35 min |
| Jun 17, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Antelope | 35 min |
| Jun 17, 10:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Madison | 58 min |
| Jun 20, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Gage | 49 min |
| Jun 20, 4:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Gage, Pawnee | 32 min |
| Jun 20, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Pawnee | 35 min |
| Jun 20, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Pawnee | 31 min |
| Jun 22, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 17 min |
| Jun 22, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 36 min |
| Jun 22, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Morrill | 18 min |
| Jun 23, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Morrill | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cuming, Thurston | 34 min |
| Jun 23, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Colfax, Platte | 34 min |
| Jun 23, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Thurston | 51 min |
| Jun 23, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Dakota, Dixon | 50 min |
| Jun 23, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Colfax, Platte | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cuming, Stanton, Wayne | 45 min |
| Jun 23, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Dodge | 49 min |
| Jun 23, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cuming | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Dakota | 34 min |
| Jun 23, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Burt, Washington | 49 min |
| Jun 23, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Dodge | 32 min |
| Jun 23, 9:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Platte | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 10:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Washington | 35 min |
| Jun 23, 10:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Burt | 29 min |
| Jun 24, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Knox | 62 min |
| Jun 24, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt | 33 min |
| Jun 27, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Gage | 50 min |
| Jun 27, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cass | 32 min |
| Jun 27, 9:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Jefferson | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 10:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Gage | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 10:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Knox | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 10:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cedar, Pierce | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 11:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Wayne | 50 min |
| Jun 29, 11:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cuming, Thurston | 46 min |
| Jun 29, 11:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Burt | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 3:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Seward | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Lancaster, Saline | 62 min |
| Jul 1, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 66 min |
| Jul 1, 10:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 61 min |
| Jul 2, 10:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Morrill | 27 min |
| Jul 2, 10:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Garden | 63 min |
| Jul 5, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Kimball | 17 min |
| Jul 6, 2:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Brown | 48 min |
| Jul 6, 4:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Antelope, Knox, Pierce | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cedar | 63 min |
| Jul 6, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Dixon | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Colfax, Platte | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Dakota | 30 min |
| Jul 7, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Perkins | 33 min |
| Jul 9, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Dakota | 33 min |
| Jul 11, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Morrill | 15 min |
| Jul 11, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Garden | 32 min |
| Jul 15, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Kimball | 25 min |
| Jul 21, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Cheyenne, Kimball | 33 min |
| Jul 21, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 32 min |
| Aug 11, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Deuel | 47 min |
| Aug 11, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Deuel | 47 min |
| Sep 25, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo | 43 min |
| Oct 4, 1:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson | 51 min |
| Oct 4, 2:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Webster | 33 min |
| Oct 4, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Thayer | 62 min |
| Oct 4, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Jefferson, Saline | 50 min |
| Oct 16, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phelps | 30 min |
| Oct 16, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson | 38 min |
| Oct 28, 5:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt | 48 min |
| Oct 28, 6:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt | 62 min |
| Oct 28, 6:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt | 48 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Phelps County8
- Gage County7
- Gosper County7
- Pawnee County6
- Morrill County6
- Dawson County6
- Kearney County6
- Dakota County6
- Adams County5
- Jefferson County5
- Lancaster County5
- Platte County5
- Buffalo County5
- Frontier County5
- Kimball County5
- Washington County4
- Garden County4
- Cheyenne County4
- Deuel County4
- Scotts Bluff County4
- Sioux County4
- Burt County4
- Webster County4
- Cuming County4
- Holt County4
- Hooker County3
- Hall County3
- Seward County3
- Howard County3
- Merrick County3
- Thayer County3
- Cherry County3
- Perkins County3
- Hayes County3
- Dodge County3
- Cedar County3
- Dixon County3
- Cass County3
- Saline County3
- Thurston County3
36 more counties
- Colfax County3
- Knox County3
- McPherson County2
- Hamilton County2
- Polk County2
- York County2
- Fillmore County2
- Madison County2
- Stanton County2
- Chase County2
- Lincoln County2
- Custer County2
- Antelope County2
- Wayne County2
- Pierce County2
- Arthur County1
- Thomas County1
- Johnson County1
- Butler County1
- Sherman County1
- Otoe County1
- Grant County1
- Red Willow County1
- Furnas County1
- Hitchcock County1
- Loup County1
- Garfield County1
- Valley County1
- Greeley County1
- Banner County1
- Franklin County1
- Nuckolls County1
- Richardson County1
- Boone County1
- Box Butte County1
- Brown County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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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. Rebuilt daily.