Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings / 2002
Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, May 2002
25 tornado warnings in May 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 May 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 25
- Busiest day
- May 27, 200211 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Webster County2
- Merrick County2
- Frontier County2
- Franklin County2
- Kearney County2
- Harlan County2
- Nuckolls County1
- Blaine County1
- Platte County1
- Thayer County1
- Jefferson County1
- Buffalo County1
- Sherman County1
- Howard County1
- Hall County1
- Red Willow County1
- Nance County1
- Furnas County1
- Hamilton County1
- Polk County1
- York County1
- Phelps County1
- Butler County1
- Seward County1
- Hooker 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.