Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2020
3 tornado watches in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest month
- March1 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 19, 20201 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 19, 3:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha and 5 more | 8 hr |
| May 23, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Cass, Clay, Douglas, Fillmore, Gage and 15 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cass County2
- Gage County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Lancaster County2
- Nemaha County2
- Otoe County2
- Pawnee County2
- Richardson County2
- Saline County2
- Sarpy County2
- Dundy County1
- Hitchcock County1
- Red Willow County1
- Butler County1
- Clay County1
- Douglas County1
- Fillmore County1
- Nuckolls County1
- Polk County1
- Saunders County1
- Seward County1
- Thayer County1
- York 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.