Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Watches / 2004
Tornado Watches in Nebraska, May 2004
12 tornado watches in May 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 May 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest day
- May 22, 20044 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, 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adams County6
- Boone County6
- Butler County6
- Colfax County6
- Cuming County6
- Dodge County6
- Hall County6
- Hamilton County6
- Merrick County6
- Nance County6
- Platte County6
- Polk County6
- Seward County6
- Stanton County6
- York County6
- Thayer County6
- Buffalo County5
- Sherman County5
- Valley County5
- Greeley County5
- Howard County5
- Madison County5
- Saunders County5
- Thurston County5
- Clay County5
- Fillmore County5
- Nuckolls County5
- Burt County5
- Washington County5
- Gage County5
- Jefferson County5
- Johnson County5
- Nemaha County5
- Otoe County5
- Pawnee County5
- Harlan County4
- Phelps County4
- Kearney County4
- Wheeler County4
- Webster County4
43 more counties
- Cass County4
- Douglas County4
- Lancaster County4
- Saline County4
- Sarpy County4
- Richardson County4
- Chase County3
- Dawson County3
- Dundy County3
- Frontier County3
- Furnas County3
- Gosper County3
- Hayes County3
- Hitchcock County3
- Lincoln County3
- Perkins County3
- Red Willow County3
- Logan County3
- Antelope County3
- Boyd County3
- Cedar County3
- Dakota County3
- Dixon County3
- Garfield County3
- Holt County3
- Knox County3
- Pierce County3
- Wayne County3
- Franklin County3
- Arthur County2
- Custer County2
- Keith County2
- Loup County2
- Rock County1
- Banner County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Deuel County1
- Garden County1
- Kimball County1
- McPherson County1
- Morrill County1
- Scotts Bluff County1
- Thomas 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.