Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Watches / 2000
Tornado Watches in Nebraska, May 2000
5 tornado watches in May 2000. 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 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 17, 20002 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 7, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Blaine, Box Butte, Brown, Chase and 25 more | 6 hr |
| May 16, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banner, Kimball, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 5 hr |
| May 17, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arthur, Blaine, Buffalo, Chase, Clay and 32 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 29 more | 5 hr |
| May 17, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler, Cass and 43 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Custer County3
- Dawson County3
- Gosper County3
- Phelps County3
- Arthur County2
- Banner County2
- Blaine County2
- Chase County2
- Frontier County2
- Garden County2
- Grant County2
- Hayes County2
- Hooker County2
- Keith County2
- Kimball County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- Loup County2
- McPherson County2
- Perkins County2
- Scotts Bluff County2
- Sioux County2
- Thomas County2
- Adams County2
- Buffalo County2
- Clay County2
- Franklin County2
- Greeley County2
- Hall County2
- Hamilton County2
- Harlan County2
- Howard County2
- Kearney County2
- Nuckolls County2
- Sherman County2
- Thayer County2
- Valley County2
- Webster County2
- Boone County2
- Burt County2
45 more counties
- Butler County2
- Cass County2
- Colfax County2
- Cuming County2
- Dakota County2
- Dodge County2
- Douglas County2
- Fillmore County2
- Gage County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Lancaster County2
- Madison County2
- Merrick County2
- Nance County2
- Otoe County2
- Platte County2
- Polk County2
- Saline County2
- Sarpy County2
- Saunders County2
- Seward County2
- Stanton County2
- Thurston County2
- Washington County2
- Wayne County2
- Wheeler County2
- York County2
- Box Butte County1
- Brown County1
- Cherry County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Dawes County1
- Deuel County1
- Morrill County1
- Sheridan County1
- Furnas County1
- Garfield County1
- Hitchcock County1
- Red Willow County1
- Antelope County1
- Cedar County1
- Dixon County1
- Knox County1
- Pierce 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. Rebuilt daily.