Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Nebraska, May 1998
13 tornado watches in May 1998. 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 May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest day
- May 20, 19983 tornado watches
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Buffalo and 32 more | 6 hr |
| May 11, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 14, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blaine, Boyd, Garfield, Holt, Knox, Logan and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cheyenne, Deuel and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Grant and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 20, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 20, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Grant, Hooker, Logan and 4 more | 7 hr |
| May 21, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Buffalo, Chase, Cheyenne and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Butler, Chase, Clay, Custer and 31 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Dodge, Douglas, Gage, Johnson, Lancaster and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 6 hr |
| May 28, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt | 6 hr |
| May 30, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon and 7 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Logan County6
- Keith County5
- Blaine County4
- Custer County4
- Loup County4
- Arthur County4
- Banner County4
- Cheyenne County4
- Grant County4
- Kimball County4
- Lincoln County4
- McPherson County4
- Scotts Bluff County4
- Sioux County4
- Brown County3
- Buffalo County3
- Dawson County3
- Franklin County3
- Furnas County3
- Gosper County3
- Harlan County3
- Kearney County3
- Knox County3
- Phelps County3
- Rock County3
- Sherman County3
- Burt County3
- Dodge County3
- Washington County3
- Box Butte County3
- Chase County3
- Deuel County3
- Dundy County3
- Frontier County3
- Garden County3
- Hayes County3
- Hitchcock County3
- Morrill County3
- Perkins County3
- Red Willow County3
53 more counties
- Hooker County3
- Thomas County3
- Adams County2
- Clay County2
- Fillmore County2
- Garfield County2
- Hall County2
- Hamilton County2
- Holt County2
- Howard County2
- Merrick County2
- Nance County2
- Nuckolls County2
- Pierce County2
- Polk County2
- Thayer County2
- Valley County2
- Webster County2
- Wheeler County2
- York County2
- Butler County2
- Cass County2
- Cedar County2
- Colfax County2
- Cuming County2
- Dakota County2
- Dixon County2
- Douglas County2
- Gage County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Lancaster County2
- Nemaha County2
- Otoe County2
- Pawnee County2
- Richardson County2
- Saline County2
- Sarpy County2
- Saunders County2
- Seward County2
- Stanton County2
- Thurston County2
- Wayne County2
- Cherry County2
- Dawes County2
- Sheridan County2
- Antelope County1
- Boone County1
- Greeley County1
- Madison County1
- Platte County1
- Boyd County1
- Keya Paha County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.