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Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 2019

59 tornado warnings in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
59
Busiest month
May27 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 28, 20198 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
May 5, 5:40 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXLancaster35 min
May 5, 5:57 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXCass, Lancaster, Otoe33 min
May 17, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDHitchcock30 min
May 17, 5:37 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDHitchcock, Red Willow23 min
May 17, 5:51 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDRed Willow28 min
May 17, 6:03 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedLBFFrontier42 min
May 17, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFFrontier49 min
May 17, 6:48 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDDawson57 min
May 17, 7:04 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatLBFFrontier, Lincoln41 min
May 17, 7:40 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGIDDawson65 min
May 17, 8:15 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedLBFCuster45 min
May 17, 10:22 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDValley24 min
May 21, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPawnee, Richardson35 min
May 21, 7:39 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXNemaha, Richardson36 min
May 21, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXNemaha, Richardson30 min
May 24, 4:11 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXJohnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson34 min
May 24, 4:36 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXNemaha24 min
May 24, 4:40 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXNemaha, Richardson22 min
May 26, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDFranklin, Kearney27 min
May 27, 8:14 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedLBFChase46 min
May 27, 11:09 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDNuckolls, Thayer36 min
May 27, 11:32 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDThayer28 min
May 28, 12:13 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDDundy32 min
May 28, 12:18 AM CDTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo, Hall, Howard, Sherman27 min
May 28, 12:26 AM CDTTornado WarningGLDDundy34 min
May 28, 12:44 AM CDTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo, Hall, Howard, Sherman31 min
May 28, 1:01 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXGage, Johnson17 min
Jun 17, 6:55 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSBanner, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill35 min
Jun 19, 10:23 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSSioux52 min
Jun 19, 10:57 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSDawes, Sioux48 min
Jun 19, 11:37 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSBox Butte, Dawes38 min
Jun 20, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSBox Butte, Dawes, Sioux23 min
Jul 5, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSSioux33 min
Jul 5, 6:35 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSDawes, Sioux25 min
Jul 8, 3:03 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDFranklin, Harlan27 min
Jul 8, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDFranklin30 min
Jul 12, 6:58 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedCYSCheyenne32 min
Jul 12, 7:28 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSCheyenne32 min
Jul 17, 7:06 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedCYSSioux24 min
Jul 17, 7:27 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedCYSSioux21 min
Jul 17, 8:36 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSDawes24 min
Jul 28, 9:23 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedLBFBoyd, Holt25 min
Aug 7, 9:58 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFHolt32 min
Aug 9, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFBoyd, Holt, Keya Paha67 min
Aug 9, 7:52 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFBoyd, Keya Paha, Rock38 min
Aug 10, 6:11 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFChase, Hayes33 min
Aug 13, 3:51 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDHitchcock, Red Willow24 min
Aug 13, 4:17 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDHitchcock43 min
Aug 29, 5:25 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFHayes20 min
Aug 29, 5:45 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedLBFHayes15 min
Aug 29, 5:48 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDHitchcock27 min
Aug 29, 6:21 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDHitchcock, Red Willow24 min
Sep 10, 5:36 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSSioux39 min
Sep 10, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSBanner, Scotts Bluff31 min
Sep 11, 6:38 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFCherry41 min
Sep 11, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFGrant, Hooker37 min
Oct 1, 1:59 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXJohnson, Pawnee31 min
Oct 1, 2:32 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXNemaha, Otoe32 min
Oct 1, 4:54 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPawnee20 min

By county

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

2 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 28, 20198tornado warnings
  2. May 17, 20196tornado warnings
  3. May 18, 20194tornado warnings
  4. June 20, 20194tornado warnings
  5. August 29, 20194tornado warnings
  6. May 22, 20193tornado warnings
  7. May 24, 20193tornado warnings
  8. July 18, 20193tornado warnings
  9. August 10, 20193tornado warnings
  10. October 1, 20193tornado warnings
  11. May 5, 20192tornado warnings
  12. July 5, 20192tornado 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.