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Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 2021

60 tornado warnings in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
60
Busiest month
December27 tornado warnings
Busiest day
December 15, 202127 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, 4:45 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOAXCedar30 min
May 23, 5:31 PM CDTTornado Warning Considerable damage threatCYSCheyenne44 min
May 23, 5:33 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFDeuel, Garden42 min
May 26, 4:23 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDundy52 min
May 26, 4:46 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatGLDDundy29 min
May 26, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFChase, Hayes60 min
May 26, 5:03 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDDundy, Hitchcock42 min
May 26, 5:20 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDHitchcock, Red Willow40 min
May 26, 5:29 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDHitchcock46 min
May 26, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFHayes45 min
May 26, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFHayes45 min
May 26, 5:31 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDDundy, Hitchcock44 min
May 26, 5:47 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSSioux28 min
May 26, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDHitchcock, Red Willow45 min
May 26, 6:07 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFHayes31 min
May 26, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDRed Willow48 min
May 26, 6:46 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDRed Willow44 min
May 26, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDRed Willow48 min
May 26, 8:02 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDHitchcock28 min
Jun 11, 12:25 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXRichardson16 min
Jun 24, 1:11 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXMadison, Stanton34 min
Jun 24, 1:41 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXColfax, Cuming, Dodge, Stanton34 min
Jun 24, 5:43 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXOtoe47 min
Jun 24, 6:07 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXOtoe38 min
Jun 24, 6:34 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXRichardson41 min
Jul 9, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSBox Butte33 min
Jul 9, 7:07 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSMorrill26 min
Jul 9, 9:31 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSSioux44 min
Jul 9, 11:57 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFArthur, Grant, Hooker, McPherson33 min
Aug 19, 6:10 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFChase, Perkins50 min
Aug 20, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXJefferson34 min
Sep 2, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDKearney, Phelps23 min
Sep 2, 6:20 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDHarlan25 min
Dec 15, 1:30 PM CSTTornado WarningGIDAdams, Franklin, Webster15 min
Dec 15, 1:43 PM CSTTornado WarningGIDAdams17 min
Dec 15, 1:45 PM CSTTornado WarningGIDAdams, Clay, Webster15 min
Dec 15, 1:45 PM CSTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo, Hall, Howard15 min
Dec 15, 1:57 PM CSTTornado WarningGIDAdams, Hall, Hamilton, Merrick18 min
Dec 15, 2:03 PM CSTTornado WarningGIDClay, Hamilton12 min
Dec 15, 2:14 PM CSTTornado WarningGIDHamilton, Merrick, Polk, York16 min
Dec 15, 2:32 PM CSTTornado WarningGIDHamilton, Merrick, Nance, Polk13 min
Dec 15, 2:39 PM CSTTornado WarningGIDNance9 min
Dec 15, 2:39 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXBoone, Madison, Platte, Stanton24 min
Dec 15, 2:43 PM CSTTornado WarningGIDMerrick, Polk17 min
Dec 15, 2:45 PM CSTTornado WarningGIDPolk, York15 min
Dec 15, 2:50 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXColfax, Platte40 min
Dec 15, 2:59 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXButler, Colfax, Dodge, Platte31 min
Dec 15, 3:06 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXMadison, Platte, Stanton24 min
Dec 15, 3:23 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXLancaster, Seward16 min
Dec 15, 3:25 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXColfax, Cuming, Stanton35 min
Dec 15, 3:29 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXMadison, Stanton, Wayne31 min
Dec 15, 3:45 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXDouglas, Saunders30 min
Dec 15, 3:45 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedOAXCuming, Thurston45 min
Dec 15, 3:54 PM CSTTornado Warning Tornado observedOAXDodge, Douglas, Washington28 min
Dec 15, 3:59 PM CSTTornado WarningFSDDakota, Dixon31 min
Dec 15, 4:00 PM CSTTornado WarningFSDDakota45 min
Dec 15, 4:01 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXCass, Otoe14 min
Dec 15, 4:11 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXNemaha, Pawnee, Richardson34 min
Dec 15, 4:12 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXCass33 min
Dec 15, 4:16 PM CSTTornado WarningOAXWashington17 min

By county

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

15 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. December 15, 202127tornado warnings
  2. May 26, 202115tornado warnings
  3. June 24, 20215tornado warnings
  4. July 10, 20213tornado warnings
  5. May 23, 20212tornado warnings
  6. September 2, 20212tornado warnings
  7. May 5, 20211tornado warnings
  8. May 27, 20211tornado warnings
  9. June 11, 20211tornado warnings
  10. July 9, 20211tornado warnings
  11. August 19, 20211tornado warnings
  12. August 20, 20211tornado 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.