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Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 2016

72 tornado warnings in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
72
Busiest month
May36 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 9, 201611 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 24, 6:03 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDNuckolls27 min
Apr 26, 6:06 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDNuckolls, Thayer24 min
Apr 27, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXDouglas23 min
May 7, 8:04 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFChase26 min
May 8, 6:33 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDRed Willow27 min
May 8, 7:06 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDHarlan24 min
May 8, 7:29 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFFrontier46 min
May 8, 9:10 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDNuckolls, Webster10 min
May 9, 4:32 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOAXLancaster28 min
May 9, 4:50 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXLancaster25 min
May 9, 5:03 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDClay27 min
May 9, 5:11 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXLancaster34 min
May 9, 5:17 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDClay28 min
May 9, 5:39 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXCass, Lancaster, Otoe36 min
May 9, 5:49 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXCass26 min
May 9, 6:14 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOAXCass16 min
May 10, 5:49 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGIDHamilton, Merrick26 min
May 22, 4:05 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFCherry40 min
May 22, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFCherry34 min
May 22, 6:37 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFCherry38 min
May 24, 9:15 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDundy30 min
May 24, 9:21 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFChase24 min
May 24, 9:44 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFChase31 min
May 24, 9:45 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDundy30 min
May 24, 10:14 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDundy34 min
May 24, 10:15 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFChase30 min
May 26, 3:39 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXGage, Lancaster25 min
May 26, 4:40 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXJohnson, Nemaha, Otoe35 min
May 26, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXNemaha, Otoe23 min
May 26, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDRed Willow48 min
May 26, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDHitchcock, Red Willow34 min
May 26, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDHitchcock, Red Willow46 min
May 26, 9:02 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDHitchcock, Red Willow43 min
May 26, 9:23 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDRed Willow27 min
May 27, 6:19 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDFillmore26 min
May 27, 9:08 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXLancaster, Saunders37 min
May 30, 3:05 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedCYSCheyenne25 min
May 30, 3:28 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedCYSCheyenne32 min
May 30, 3:29 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedLBFGarden31 min
Jun 28, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFSheridan20 min
Jun 28, 7:41 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedLBFGrant34 min
Jul 6, 4:14 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedCYSBox Butte, Dawes31 min
Jul 6, 4:17 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFSheridan43 min
Jul 6, 5:04 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFSheridan26 min
Jul 6, 5:29 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFSheridan31 min
Jul 6, 5:57 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedLBFGrant, Sheridan33 min
Jul 6, 6:16 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedLBFCherry29 min
Jul 6, 6:43 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFCherry32 min
Jul 6, 7:16 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFCherry29 min
Jul 6, 7:44 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedLBFArthur, McPherson31 min
Jul 6, 8:14 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedLBFKeith, Lincoln, McPherson31 min
Jul 6, 9:01 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFLincoln29 min
Jul 7, 4:27 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedCYSCheyenne33 min
Jul 22, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFArthur45 min
Jul 22, 9:20 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFArthur, Keith25 min
Jul 26, 7:53 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSDawes15 min
Jul 26, 8:54 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFCherry36 min
Jul 27, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSBanner, Scotts Bluff, Sioux31 min
Jul 27, 7:39 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSBanner, Scotts Bluff10 min
Jul 27, 7:42 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSCheyenne, Kimball33 min
Jul 29, 6:09 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSCheyenne, Morrill36 min
Jul 29, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSCheyenne, Morrill34 min
Jul 29, 7:36 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSCheyenne24 min
Aug 23, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXWashington25 min
Sep 4, 8:53 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFLogan, McPherson37 min
Sep 15, 3:56 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXColfax, Cuming, Dodge, Stanton34 min
Sep 15, 4:38 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXCuming37 min
Sep 15, 4:42 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXDouglas, Washington33 min
Sep 15, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXBurt, Cuming30 min
Sep 23, 6:17 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSSioux28 min
Nov 27, 4:34 PM CSTTornado WarningGIDNuckolls, Webster26 min
Nov 27, 4:54 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedGIDClay, Nuckolls36 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

4 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 9, 201611tornado warnings
  2. July 6, 20167tornado warnings
  3. May 25, 20166tornado warnings
  4. May 27, 20166tornado warnings
  5. July 7, 20165tornado warnings
  6. September 15, 20164tornado warnings
  7. May 22, 20163tornado warnings
  8. May 26, 20163tornado warnings
  9. May 30, 20163tornado warnings
  10. July 27, 20163tornado warnings
  11. May 8, 20162tornado warnings
  12. June 29, 20162tornado warnings

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.