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Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2008

34 tornado watches in 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
34
Busiest month
May15 tornado watches
Busiest day
May 29, 20084 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 7, 1:52 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBanner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more146 days
Apr 23, 2:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArthur, Box Butte, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes and 17 more8 hr
Apr 23, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlaine, Brown, Custer, Garfield, Holt, Keya Paha and 2 more4 hr
Apr 25, 1:13 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCGage, Jefferson, Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson5 hr
May 22, 12:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Kimball9 hr
May 22, 1:52 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBuffalo, Dawson, Dundy, Franklin, Furnas, Gosper and 5 more10 hr
May 22, 3:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChase, Deuel, Frontier, Hayes, Keith, Lincoln and 1 more7 hr
May 22, 9:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 11 more8 hr
May 23, 1:41 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBanner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more6 hr
May 23, 2:15 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCChase, Dundy, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Harlan and 4 more7 hr
May 23, 7:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cheyenne, Dawes and 13 more5 hr
May 23, 8:48 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAdams, Clay, Fillmore, Franklin, Furnas, Gosper and 8 more6 hr
May 24, 3:08 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo and 45 more6 hr
May 25, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCGage, Jefferson, Johnson, Nemaha, Nuckolls, Otoe and 4 more6 hr
May 29, 1:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne and 14 more7 hr
May 29, 2:30 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAdams, Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown and 44 more8 hr
May 29, 5:26 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDakota, Dixon6 hr
May 29, 6:43 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBurt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge and 15 more7 hr
May 29, 10:02 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Fillmore, Franklin, Nuckolls, Thayer, Webster4 hr
Jun 1, 3:29 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes and 12 more8 hr
Jun 4, 1:42 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChase, Deuel, Dundy, Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock and 4 more7 hr
Jun 4, 2:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Buffalo, Butler and 44 more6 hr
Jun 4, 5:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBurt, Cuming, Dodge, Washington6 hr
Jun 4, 8:49 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Buffalo, Butler, Cass, Clay, Dawson and 34 more7 hr
Jun 4, 11:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBurt, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon, Dodge, Thurston and 1 more5 hr
Jun 5, 10:55 AM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAdams, Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown and 65 more8 hr
Jun 5, 5:50 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAdams, Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass and 40 more7 hr
Jun 7, 4:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Burt, Butler, Cass, Clay, Colfax and 31 more7 hr
Jun 11, 2:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBurt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota and 17 more7 hr
Jun 11, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCThayer6 hr
Jun 11, 9:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCGage, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson5 hr
Jun 18, 4:02 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuffalo, Chase, Dawson, Dundy, Franklin, Frontier and 8 more5 hr
Jul 19, 2:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAntelope, Boone, Burt, Cedar, Cuming, Dakota and 7 more8 hr
Jul 24, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCGage, Jefferson, Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson6 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

53 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 29, 20084tornado watches
  2. June 5, 20084tornado watches
  3. May 22, 20083tornado watches
  4. May 23, 20083tornado watches
  5. May 24, 20083tornado watches
  6. June 4, 20083tornado watches
  7. April 23, 20082tornado watches
  8. June 11, 20082tornado watches
  9. January 7, 20081tornado watches
  10. April 25, 20081tornado watches
  11. May 25, 20081tornado watches
  12. May 30, 20081tornado watches

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.