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Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 2002
75 tornado warnings in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 75
- Busiest month
- May25 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- May 27, 200211 tornado warnings
Over time
By month
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Lancaster, Saline, Seward | 35 min |
| May 5, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Webster | 44 min |
| May 5, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Merrick | 48 min |
| May 5, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Webster | 44 min |
| May 5, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Blaine | 23 min |
| May 5, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Platte | 52 min |
| May 5, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Thayer | 34 min |
| May 11, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Jefferson | 29 min |
| May 26, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier | 32 min |
| May 26, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo, Sherman | 26 min |
| May 26, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Howard | 28 min |
| May 26, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hall | 42 min |
| May 26, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Franklin | 63 min |
| May 26, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier | 31 min |
| May 26, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 57 min |
| May 26, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Merrick, Nance | 51 min |
| May 26, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Furnas | 65 min |
| May 26, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton | 63 min |
| May 26, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Kearney | 45 min |
| May 26, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Polk, York | 67 min |
| May 26, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Harlan, Phelps | 61 min |
| May 26, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Franklin | 64 min |
| May 26, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Butler, Seward | 55 min |
| May 26, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Kearney | 44 min |
| May 26, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Harlan | 43 min |
| May 27, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hooker | 38 min |
| Jun 7, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keith | 31 min |
| Jun 7, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 23 min |
| Jun 10, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton | 43 min |
| Jun 10, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton | 47 min |
| Jun 10, 9:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Butler | 27 min |
| Jun 10, 9:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Colfax | 28 min |
| Jun 12, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Butler, Platte | 37 min |
| Jun 12, 5:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cass | 29 min |
| Jun 12, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Polk | 49 min |
| Jun 12, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Seward | 28 min |
| Jun 12, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Kearney | 48 min |
| Jun 19, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phelps | 47 min |
| Jun 19, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo | 47 min |
| Jul 2, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Brown, Rock | 28 min |
| Jul 24, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Antelope, Knox | 29 min |
| Jul 24, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt | 32 min |
| Jul 24, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Wheeler | 61 min |
| Jul 24, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Valley | 39 min |
| Jul 24, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Wheeler | 29 min |
| Jul 24, 9:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo | 66 min |
| Jul 24, 10:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams, Kearney | 56 min |
| Jul 25, 4:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Thurston | 21 min |
| Jul 25, 4:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Burt | 29 min |
| Jul 30, 2:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Butler | 31 min |
| Aug 11, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 47 min |
| Aug 11, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Thomas | 29 min |
| Aug 11, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 47 min |
| Aug 11, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Blaine | 37 min |
| Aug 11, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 59 min |
| Aug 11, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Blaine | 29 min |
| Aug 16, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Knox | 35 min |
| Aug 16, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cedar, Knox | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 9:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Saunders | 36 min |
| Aug 22, 9:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Douglas | 24 min |
| Aug 24, 2:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Dawes | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 3:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Deuel, Garden | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Deuel | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Deuel | 14 min |
| Aug 24, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Perkins | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Chase | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Kimball | 32 min |
| Aug 24, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 1:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 39 min |
| Aug 26, 2:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 58 min |
| Aug 26, 3:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Dundy | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 57 min |
| Aug 26, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 57 min |
| Aug 26, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 17 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Buffalo County4
- Kearney County4
- Butler County4
- Seward County3
- Blaine County3
- Hamilton County3
- Knox County3
- Hitchcock County3
- Deuel County3
- Webster County2
- Merrick County2
- Platte County2
- Frontier County2
- Franklin County2
- Polk County2
- Harlan County2
- Phelps County2
- Wheeler County2
- Cheyenne County2
- Cherry County2
- Sheridan County2
- Lancaster County1
- Saline County1
- Nuckolls County1
- Thayer County1
- Jefferson County1
- Sherman County1
- Howard County1
- Hall County1
- Red Willow County1
- Nance County1
- Furnas County1
- York County1
- Hooker County1
- Keith County1
- Lincoln County1
- Colfax County1
- Cass County1
- Brown County1
- Rock County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.