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Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2019
13 tornado watches in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest month
- May5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 17, 20191 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Buffalo, Chase, Custer, Dawson and 27 more | 9 hr |
| May 24, 1:37 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 1:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 9 hr |
| May 27, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball | 8 hr |
| May 28, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Nuckolls, Thayer, Webster | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Dawes, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 9 hr |
| Aug 11, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chase, Deuel, Dundy, Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 13, 12:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Chase, Deuel, Dundy, Frontier, Garden and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 24, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dundy, Furnas, Harlan, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 7 hr |
| Sep 10, 2:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blaine, Box Butte, Brown, Cherry, Dawes, Garden and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 24, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota, Dodge and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 1, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee and 1 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dundy County6
- Hitchcock County6
- Red Willow County6
- Chase County4
- Deuel County4
- Frontier County4
- Garden County4
- Hayes County4
- Keith County4
- Lincoln County4
- Perkins County4
- Arthur County3
- Grant County3
- Hooker County3
- Thomas County3
- Banner County3
- Box Butte County3
- Dawes County3
- Scotts Bluff County3
- Sioux County3
- Blaine County2
- Furnas County2
- Harlan County2
- Logan County2
- McPherson County2
- Rock County2
- Cass County2
- Gage County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Nemaha County2
- Otoe County2
- Pawnee County2
- Richardson County2
- Thayer County2
- Cheyenne County2
- Kimball County2
- Cherry County2
- Morrill County2
- Sheridan County2
29 more counties
- Buffalo County1
- Custer County1
- Dawson County1
- Garfield County1
- Gosper County1
- Greeley County1
- Holt County1
- Loup County1
- Phelps County1
- Sherman County1
- Valley County1
- Wheeler County1
- Lancaster County1
- Saline County1
- Franklin County1
- Nuckolls County1
- Webster County1
- Brown County1
- Keya Paha County1
- Burt County1
- Colfax County1
- Cuming County1
- Dakota County1
- Dodge County1
- Douglas County1
- Sarpy County1
- Saunders County1
- Thurston County1
- Washington 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.