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Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, May 2026

39 tornado warnings in May 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
39
Busiest day
May 18, 202622 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo15 min
May 16, 8:12 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXGage33 min
May 16, 9:09 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXGage36 min
May 16, 9:22 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXGage21 min
May 16, 9:25 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDNuckolls, Webster27 min
May 16, 9:28 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDFranklin, Harlan32 min
May 17, 4:36 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDHall, Howard, Merrick39 min
May 17, 5:07 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatGIDHoward, Merrick, Nance, Polk53 min
May 17, 6:23 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXColfax, Platte, Stanton25 min
May 17, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXColfax, Platte18 min
May 17, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDThayer37 min
May 17, 6:48 PM CDTTornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threatGIDThayer13 min
May 17, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXJefferson, Saline32 min
May 17, 7:22 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXThurston11 min
May 17, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDakota49 min
May 17, 7:33 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXGage, Jefferson, Lancaster, Saline29 min
May 17, 7:47 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXCass, Douglas, Sarpy, Saunders43 min
May 17, 8:04 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXWashington26 min
May 17, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXDouglas, Sarpy29 min
May 17, 8:17 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXCass, Lancaster, Otoe27 min
May 17, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXCass29 min
May 18, 2:26 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXGage, Jefferson49 min
May 18, 3:00 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOAXGage60 min
May 18, 3:07 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXGage, Jefferson38 min
May 18, 3:38 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXJohnson, Pawnee50 min
May 18, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXNemaha60 min
May 18, 4:25 PM CDTTornado Warning EmergencyOAXPawnee39 min
May 18, 4:52 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOAXRichardson53 min
May 18, 5:12 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatOAXRichardson48 min
May 18, 5:21 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXGage, Pawnee39 min
May 18, 5:57 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXNemaha, Pawnee, Richardson18 min
May 18, 6:14 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXNemaha20 min
May 18, 6:32 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXNemaha, Richardson20 min
May 18, 6:48 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXRichardson42 min
May 18, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXRichardson19 min
May 21, 5:44 PM CDTTornado WarningCYSKimball26 min
May 22, 5:47 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOAXCass43 min
May 30, 5:28 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedCYSKimball47 min
May 30, 7:38 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFLincoln18 min

By county

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

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.