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Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 1997

24 tornado watches in 1997. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.

Tornado Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
24
Busiest month
June14 tornado watches
Busiest day
June 11, 19973 tornado watches

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 29, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuffalo, Dawson, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper and 6 more6 hr
Jun 1, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBanner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Deuel, Garden, Kimball and 2 more6 hr
Jun 11, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Custer and 14 more6 hr
Jun 11, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCJefferson, Pawnee, Richardson5 hr
Jun 11, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Buffalo, Dawson, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas and 8 more4 hr
Jun 11, 9:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Cass, Clay, Fillmore, Franklin, Gage and 11 more6 hr
Jun 14, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBanner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 3 more6 hr
Jun 15, 1:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCOtoe6 hr
Jun 18, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBanner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden and 5 more6 hr
Jun 19, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cheyenne, Dawes and 18 more7 hr
Jun 19, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAntelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown, Butler and 27 more6 hr
Jun 20, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne and 26 more7 hr
Jun 20, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Buffalo, Burt and 49 more6 hr
Jun 25, 2:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBanner, Cheyenne, Deuel, Garden, Kimball, Morrill and 1 more6 hr
Jun 25, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChase, Dawson, Dundy, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper and 5 more5 hr
Jul 6, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArthur, Banner, Chase, Cheyenne, Deuel, Dundy and 9 more6 hr
Jul 7, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCedar, Dakota, Dixon, Pierce, Thurston, Wayne6 hr
Jul 7, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler, Cass and 37 more6 hr
Jul 12, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBanner, Box Butte, Dawes, Garden, Morrill, Scotts Bluff and 2 more6 hr
Jul 24, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAntelope, Boone, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Knox and 6 more6 hr
Aug 13, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo and 35 more7 hr
Aug 21, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChase, Custer, Dawson, Deuel, Dundy, Frontier and 8 more6 hr
Oct 11, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes and 11 more6 hr
Oct 12, 12:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCArthur, Blaine, Brown, Chase, Cherry, Custer and 16 more6 hr

By county

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

53 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. June 11, 19973tornado watches
  2. June 19, 19972tornado watches
  3. June 25, 19972tornado watches
  4. July 7, 19972tornado watches
  5. April 29, 19971tornado watches
  6. June 1, 19971tornado watches
  7. June 12, 19971tornado watches
  8. June 14, 19971tornado watches
  9. June 15, 19971tornado watches
  10. June 18, 19971tornado watches
  11. June 20, 19971tornado watches
  12. June 21, 19971tornado watches

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.