Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Watches / 2015
Tornado Watches in Nebraska, May 2015
9 tornado watches in May 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20151 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 3, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gage, Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson | 118 min |
| May 6, 1:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Fillmore, Franklin, Gage and 18 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 12:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 11 hr |
| May 10, 10:46 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Burt, Butler, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 14 more | 8 hr |
| May 15, 1:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne and 17 more | 7 hr |
| May 16, 2:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Furnas, Harlan, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 5 hr |
| May 24, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dundy, Hitchcock | 10 hr |
| May 27, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dundy, Hitchcock | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dundy County4
- Hitchcock County4
- Gage County3
- Johnson County2
- Nemaha County2
- Pawnee County2
- Richardson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lancaster County2
- Saline County2
- Thayer County2
- Red Willow County2
- Adams County1
- Buffalo County1
- Clay County1
- Fillmore County1
- Franklin County1
- Greeley County1
- Hall County1
- Hamilton County1
- Howard County1
- Kearney County1
- Merrick County1
- Nance County1
- Nuckolls County1
- Polk County1
- Seward County1
- Sherman County1
- Valley County1
- Webster County1
- York County1
- Cass County1
- Otoe County1
- Antelope County1
- Burt County1
- Butler County1
- Cedar County1
- Colfax County1
- Cuming County1
- Dakota County1
37 more counties
- Dixon County1
- Dodge County1
- Douglas County1
- Knox County1
- Madison County1
- Pierce County1
- Platte County1
- Sarpy County1
- Saunders County1
- Stanton County1
- Thurston County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne County1
- Arthur County1
- Banner County1
- Box Butte County1
- Chase County1
- Cherry County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Dawes County1
- Deuel County1
- Garden County1
- Grant County1
- Hooker County1
- Keith County1
- Kimball County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- McPherson County1
- Morrill County1
- Perkins County1
- Scotts Bluff County1
- Sheridan County1
- Sioux County1
- Thomas County1
- Furnas County1
- Harlan County1
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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.