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Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2002
15 tornado watches in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 15
- Busiest month
- July4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 27, 20022 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gage, Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Butler, Cass, Clay, Douglas and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Nemaha, Richardson | 5 hr |
| May 5, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Buffalo, Burt and 51 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Nemaha, Nuckolls, Pawnee and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Butler, Clay, Fillmore, Franklin, Furnas and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Butler, Cass, Clay, Colfax, Dodge and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler, Cass and 32 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 20, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Clay and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 24, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Cedar, Colfax, Dixon and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 24, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Dakota, Thurston | 4 hr |
| Jul 26, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Cass, Douglas, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 28, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Butler, Cass, Dodge, Douglas, Fillmore and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 24, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cheyenne, Dawes and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 18, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Cass, Dodge, Douglas, Gage, Johnson and 9 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Gage County9
- Johnson County9
- Nemaha County8
- Butler County8
- Cass County8
- Douglas County8
- Lancaster County8
- Otoe County8
- Saline County8
- Sarpy County8
- Saunders County8
- Seward County8
- Pawnee County7
- Fillmore County7
- Jefferson County7
- Nuckolls County7
- Washington County7
- York County7
- Burt County7
- Richardson County6
- Clay County6
- Hamilton County6
- Thayer County6
- Dodge County6
- Merrick County5
- Polk County5
- Colfax County5
- Nance County5
- Platte County5
- Thurston County5
- Adams County4
- Franklin County4
- Kearney County4
- Webster County4
- Boone County4
- Madison County4
- Stanton County4
- Buffalo County3
- Hall County3
- Howard County3
35 more counties
- Sherman County3
- Antelope County3
- Cuming County3
- Dakota County3
- Greeley County3
- Pierce County3
- Valley County3
- Wayne County3
- Boyd County2
- Cedar County2
- Dixon County2
- Furnas County2
- Garfield County2
- Harlan County2
- Holt County2
- Knox County2
- Wheeler County2
- Dawson County1
- Gosper County1
- Phelps County1
- Arthur County1
- Banner County1
- Box Butte County1
- Chase County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Dawes County1
- Deuel County1
- Garden County1
- Hayes County1
- Keith County1
- Kimball County1
- Morrill County1
- Perkins County1
- Scotts Bluff County1
- Sioux County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.