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Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2021
9 tornado watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest month
- May3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 23, 20211 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 23, 1:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne and 12 more | 8 hr |
| May 24, 1:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 9 hr |
| May 26, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chase, Dundy, Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock, Lincoln and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 24, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Nemaha, Nuckolls, Otoe and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 30, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blaine, Brown, Buffalo, Cherry, Custer, Dawson and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Chase, Deuel, Dundy, Frontier, Garden and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 2, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Butler, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 12, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chase, Deuel, Dundy, Hayes, Hitchcock, Keith and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 15, 1:23 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 37 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chase County4
- Dundy County4
- Perkins County4
- Hitchcock County4
- Red Willow County4
- Deuel County3
- Keith County3
- Hayes County3
- Lincoln County3
- Gage County3
- Jefferson County3
- Nuckolls County3
- Thayer County3
- Hall County3
- Howard County3
- Arthur County2
- Cherry County2
- Garden County2
- Grant County2
- Frontier County2
- Johnson County2
- Nemaha County2
- Otoe County2
- Pawnee County2
- Richardson County2
- Buffalo County2
- Dawson County2
- Greeley County2
- Hooker County2
- Logan County2
- McPherson County2
- Sherman County2
- Thomas County2
- Valley County2
- Adams County2
- Butler County2
- Clay County2
- Fillmore County2
- Hamilton County2
- Merrick County2
49 more counties
- Nance County2
- Polk County2
- Saline County2
- Seward County2
- Webster County2
- York County2
- Banner County1
- Box Butte County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Dawes County1
- Kimball County1
- Morrill County1
- Scotts Bluff County1
- Sheridan County1
- Sioux County1
- Blaine County1
- Brown County1
- Custer County1
- Garfield County1
- Holt County1
- Loup County1
- Rock County1
- Wheeler County1
- Franklin County1
- Furnas County1
- Gosper County1
- Harlan County1
- Kearney County1
- Phelps County1
- Boone County1
- Burt County1
- Cass County1
- Cedar County1
- Colfax County1
- Cuming County1
- Dakota County1
- Dixon County1
- Dodge County1
- Douglas County1
- Lancaster County1
- Madison County1
- Pierce County1
- Platte County1
- Sarpy County1
- Saunders County1
- Stanton County1
- Thurston County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne 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.