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Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2016
12 tornado watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest month
- May5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 23, 20161 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 3:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Gage, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha, Otoe and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 2:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Fillmore, Franklin, Gage and 20 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Furnas, Harlan, Nuckolls, Red Willow, Webster | 8 hr |
| May 21, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dundy | 8 hr |
| May 22, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Deuel and 10 more | 7 hr |
| May 24, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chase, Deuel, Dundy, Hayes, Hitchcock, Keith and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 1:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Butler, Cass, Clay, Dawson and 33 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 13, 2:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dundy | 8 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blaine, Box Butte, Brown, Cherry, Dawes, Grant and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 4, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha, Pawnee and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 6, 2:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Douglas, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster and 6 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Gage County5
- Johnson County5
- Lancaster County5
- Pawnee County5
- Saline County5
- Nemaha County4
- Richardson County4
- Jefferson County4
- Dundy County4
- Cass County3
- Otoe County3
- Franklin County3
- Harlan County3
- Nuckolls County3
- Seward County3
- Webster County3
- Red Willow County3
- Adams County2
- Buffalo County2
- Clay County2
- Fillmore County2
- Hall County2
- Hamilton County2
- Kearney County2
- Merrick County2
- Phelps County2
- Polk County2
- Thayer County2
- York County2
- Furnas County2
- Blaine County2
- Brown County2
- Cherry County2
- Deuel County2
- Grant County2
- Hooker County2
- Keith County2
- Keya Paha County2
- Lincoln County2
- Sheridan County2
31 more counties
- Thomas County2
- Hitchcock County2
- Douglas County2
- Sarpy County2
- Box Butte County2
- Dawes County2
- Howard County1
- Nance County1
- Sherman County1
- Arthur County1
- Custer County1
- Garden County1
- Logan County1
- McPherson County1
- Chase County1
- Hayes County1
- Perkins County1
- Butler County1
- Dawson County1
- Dodge County1
- Gosper County1
- Saunders County1
- Washington County1
- Banner County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Kimball County1
- Morrill County1
- Scotts Bluff County1
- Sioux County1
- Loup County1
- Rock County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.