Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Watches / 2016
Tornado Watches in Nebraska, May 2016
5 tornado watches in May 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 May 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 8, 20161 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Red Willow County3
- Dundy County3
- Franklin County2
- Furnas County2
- Harlan County2
- Nuckolls County2
- Webster County2
- Deuel County2
- Keith County2
- Lincoln County2
- Hitchcock County2
- Arthur County1
- Blaine County1
- Brown County1
- Cherry County1
- Custer County1
- Garden County1
- Grant County1
- Hooker County1
- Keya Paha County1
- Logan County1
- McPherson County1
- Sheridan County1
- Thomas County1
- Chase County1
- Hayes County1
- Perkins County1
- Adams County1
- Buffalo County1
- Butler County1
- Cass County1
- Clay County1
- Dawson County1
- Dodge County1
- Douglas County1
- Fillmore County1
- Gage County1
- Gosper County1
- Hall County1
- Hamilton 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.