Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings / 1998
Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, May 1998
66 tornado warnings in May 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 May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 66
- Busiest day
- May 22, 199823 tornado warnings
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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Gosper County6
- Phelps County6
- Kearney County6
- Frontier County4
- Howard County3
- Adams County3
- Merrick County3
- Lancaster County3
- Hamilton County2
- Polk County2
- York County2
- Hooker County2
- Garden County2
- Morrill County2
- Dawson County2
- Buffalo County2
- Scotts Bluff County2
- Perkins County2
- Hayes County2
- Dakota County2
- Sherman County1
- Hall County1
- Thayer County1
- Jefferson County1
- Gage County1
- Otoe County1
- Fillmore County1
- Platte County1
- Madison County1
- Stanton County1
- Cherry County1
- Grant County1
- McPherson County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Deuel County1
- Sioux County1
- Red Willow County1
- Chase County1
- Furnas County1
- Hitchcock 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. Rebuilt daily.