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Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2012
11 tornado watches in 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest month
- April6 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 14, 20125 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 3:53 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Clay, Colfax and 30 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 29, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gage, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson | 6 hr |
| Apr 12, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chase, Dundy, Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock, Perkins and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:43 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 7 hr |
| Apr 14, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler and 46 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 14, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blaine, Custer, Frontier, Garfield, Hayes, Holt and 7 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 14, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 9 hr |
| Apr 14, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Cass, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore and 30 more | 9 hr |
| May 5, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Cedar, Custer, Dakota, Dawson and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 6, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 7, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 10 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dawson County4
- Gage County4
- Greeley County4
- Sherman County4
- Valley County4
- Adams County3
- Boone County3
- Buffalo County3
- Clay County3
- Custer County3
- Fillmore County3
- Franklin County3
- Furnas County3
- Gosper County3
- Hall County3
- Hamilton County3
- Harlan County3
- Howard County3
- Jefferson County3
- Kearney County3
- Lancaster County3
- Merrick County3
- Nance County3
- Nuckolls County3
- Phelps County3
- Polk County3
- Saline County3
- Seward County3
- Thayer County3
- Webster County3
- York County3
- Johnson County3
- Nemaha County3
- Otoe County3
- Pawnee County3
- Richardson County3
- Frontier County3
- Hitchcock County3
- Red Willow County3
- Butler County2
42 more counties
- Colfax County2
- Dodge County2
- Platte County2
- Saunders County2
- Hayes County2
- Antelope County2
- Cass County2
- Madison County2
- Pierce County2
- Sarpy County2
- Thurston County2
- Wayne County2
- Garfield County2
- Holt County2
- Lincoln County2
- Loup County2
- Wheeler County2
- Banner County2
- Box Butte County2
- Cheyenne County2
- Dawes County2
- Kimball County2
- Morrill County2
- Scotts Bluff County2
- Sioux County2
- Chase County1
- Dundy County1
- Perkins County1
- Burt County1
- Cuming County1
- Douglas County1
- Stanton County1
- Washington County1
- Blaine County1
- Hooker County1
- Logan County1
- McPherson County1
- Thomas County1
- Cedar County1
- Dakota County1
- Dixon County1
- Knox County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.