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Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2004
31 tornado watches in 2004. 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 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 31
- Busiest month
- May12 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 22, 20044 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, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Burt, Butler, Cass, Clay, Colfax and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 18, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Douglas, Lancaster, Sarpy | 4 hr |
| May 11, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chase, Dawson, Dundy, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 16, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Buffalo, Chase, Custer, Dawson, Dundy and 14 more | 7 hr |
| May 16, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Buffalo, Butler and 29 more | 5 hr |
| May 21, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Buffalo, Butler and 33 more | 5 hr |
| May 21, 9:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon, Dodge, Thurston and 1 more | 4 hr |
| May 22, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Chase, Cheyenne, Deuel, Dundy and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler, Cass and 44 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 10:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 11:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Clay and 33 more | 11 hr |
| May 29, 2:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boyd, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Holt, Knox and 2 more | 8 hr |
| May 29, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler and 44 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Clay and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kimball | 7 hr |
| Jun 8, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arthur, Buffalo, Chase, Custer, Dawson and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banner, Kimball, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 6 hr |
| Jun 10, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 10, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dawson, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Harlan and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 10, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Custer, Garfield, Greeley and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 11:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota and 23 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Fillmore, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Nemaha and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Knox, Pierce, Wayne | 6 hr |
| Jul 12, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boyd, Cedar, Dixon, Holt, Knox | 6 hr |
| Jul 12, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 12, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Franklin, Hall, Hamilton and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 15, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Buffalo, Butler, Cedar and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 20, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boyd, Cedar, Cuming, Dixon, Garfield and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 3, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 23, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Fillmore, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Nemaha and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha and 4 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cuming County12
- Stanton County12
- Colfax County11
- Polk County11
- York County11
- Butler County10
- Dixon County10
- Dodge County10
- Gage County10
- Jefferson County10
- Johnson County10
- Merrick County10
- Nemaha County10
- Otoe County10
- Pawnee County10
- Platte County10
- Seward County10
- Thayer County10
- Adams County9
- Burt County9
- Cass County9
- Clay County9
- Fillmore County9
- Hamilton County9
- Lancaster County9
- Nuckolls County9
- Sarpy County9
- Washington County9
- Sherman County9
- Greeley County9
- Hall County9
- Howard County9
- Madison County9
- Douglas County8
- Saline County8
- Saunders County8
- Thurston County8
- Wayne County8
- Webster County8
- Buffalo County8
53 more counties
- Valley County8
- Boone County8
- Cedar County8
- Knox County8
- Nance County8
- Wheeler County8
- Richardson County8
- Dakota County7
- Harlan County7
- Phelps County7
- Boyd County7
- Holt County7
- Pierce County7
- Logan County6
- Antelope County6
- Garfield County6
- Kearney County6
- Franklin County6
- Dawson County5
- Frontier County5
- Furnas County5
- Gosper County5
- Hayes County5
- Hitchcock County5
- Lincoln County5
- Perkins County5
- Red Willow County5
- Chase County4
- Dundy County4
- Arthur County4
- Custer County4
- Keith County4
- Loup County4
- Rock County3
- Cheyenne County3
- Kimball County3
- McPherson County3
- Banner County2
- Deuel County2
- Garden County2
- Morrill County2
- Scotts Bluff County2
- Thomas County2
- Sioux County2
- Box Butte County1
- Cherry County1
- Dawes County1
- Grant County1
- Hooker County1
- Sheridan County1
- Blaine County1
- Brown County1
- Keya Paha County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.