Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Nebraska, May 2008
15 tornado watches in May 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 15
- Busiest day
- May 29, 20084 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 22, 12:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kimball | 9 hr |
| May 22, 1:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buffalo, Dawson, Dundy, Franklin, Furnas, Gosper and 5 more | 10 hr |
| May 22, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chase, Deuel, Frontier, Hayes, Keith, Lincoln and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 11 more | 8 hr |
| May 23, 1:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chase, Dundy, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Harlan and 4 more | 7 hr |
| May 23, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cheyenne, Dawes and 13 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Franklin, Furnas, Gosper and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 3:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo and 45 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Nemaha, Nuckolls, Otoe and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 1:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne and 14 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown and 44 more | 8 hr |
| May 29, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dakota, Dixon | 6 hr |
| May 29, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge and 15 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 10:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Fillmore, Franklin, Nuckolls, Thayer, Webster | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Franklin County6
- Nuckolls County6
- Thayer County6
- Furnas County5
- Gosper County5
- Harlan County5
- Kearney County5
- Phelps County5
- Clay County5
- Fillmore County5
- Webster County5
- Cheyenne County4
- Kimball County4
- Buffalo County4
- Hitchcock County4
- Red Willow County4
- Chase County4
- Frontier County4
- Hayes County4
- Adams County4
- Dawson County3
- Dundy County3
- Deuel County3
- Keith County3
- Lincoln County3
- Perkins County3
- Hall County3
- Hamilton County3
- York County3
- Banner County3
- Box Butte County3
- Dawes County3
- Morrill County3
- Scotts Bluff County3
- Sioux County3
- Gage County3
- Jefferson County3
- Johnson County3
- Pawnee County3
- Saline County3
53 more counties
- Arthur County2
- Garden County2
- Grant County2
- Sheridan County2
- Antelope County2
- Boone County2
- Boyd County2
- Brown County2
- Butler County2
- Cedar County2
- Colfax County2
- Cuming County2
- Dakota County2
- Dixon County2
- Dodge County2
- Garfield County2
- Greeley County2
- Holt County2
- Howard County2
- Keya Paha County2
- Knox County2
- Lancaster County2
- Loup County2
- Madison County2
- Merrick County2
- Nance County2
- Pierce County2
- Platte County2
- Polk County2
- Rock County2
- Saunders County2
- Seward County2
- Sherman County2
- Stanton County2
- Thurston County2
- Valley County2
- Wayne County2
- Wheeler County2
- Nemaha County2
- Otoe County2
- Richardson County2
- Cherry County1
- Hooker County1
- McPherson County1
- Blaine County1
- Custer County1
- Logan County1
- Thomas County1
- Burt County1
- Cass County1
- Douglas County1
- Sarpy County1
- Washington 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.