Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Nebraska, May 2003
5 tornado watches in May 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20032 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 3, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Box Butte, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes and 11 more | 5 hr |
| May 4, 11:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Fillmore, Gage, Hall and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 12:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Douglas, Nemaha, Otoe, Richardson, Sarpy | 6 hr |
| May 8, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chase, Dawson, Dundy, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin, Gage and 13 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chase County2
- Hayes County2
- Perkins County2
- Adams County2
- Clay County2
- Fillmore County2
- Gage County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Nuckolls County2
- Pawnee County2
- Saline County2
- Thayer County2
- Webster County2
- Nemaha County2
- Richardson County2
- Dawson County2
- Gosper County2
- Arthur County1
- Box Butte County1
- Cherry County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Dawes County1
- Deuel County1
- Garden County1
- Grant County1
- Hooker County1
- Keith County1
- Lincoln County1
- McPherson County1
- Morrill County1
- Sheridan County1
- Buffalo County1
- Hall County1
- Hamilton County1
- Lancaster County1
- Seward County1
- York County1
- Cass County1
- Douglas 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.