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Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2023
12 tornado watches in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest month
- June4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 23, 20232 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Cass, Dodge, Douglas, Gage, Johnson and 9 more | 7 hr |
| May 10, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chase, Dundy, Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock, Perkins and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 12:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 8 hr |
| May 12, 1:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown, Burt and 42 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 21, 1:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 7 hr |
| Jun 23, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 23, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Chase, Cherry, Custer and 15 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 29, 2:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 5, 3:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 21, 2:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Chase, Custer, Dawson, Deuel, Frontier and 16 more | 9 hr |
| Sep 21, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Franklin, Hall, Kearney and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 12, 1:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Blaine, Brown, Buffalo, Clay, Custer and 28 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Red Willow County4
- Custer County4
- Burt County3
- Dodge County3
- Thurston County3
- Washington County3
- Chase County3
- Frontier County3
- Hayes County3
- Hitchcock County3
- Perkins County3
- Blaine County3
- Brown County3
- Loup County3
- Rock County3
- Banner County3
- Cheyenne County3
- Kimball County3
- Morrill County3
- Scotts Bluff County3
- Sioux County3
- Cass County2
- Douglas County2
- Gage County2
- Johnson County2
- Lancaster County2
- Nemaha County2
- Otoe County2
- Pawnee County2
- Richardson County2
- Sarpy County2
- Saunders County2
- Dundy County2
- Antelope County2
- Cedar County2
- Colfax County2
- Cuming County2
- Dakota County2
- Dixon County2
- Garfield County2
51 more counties
- Greeley County2
- Holt County2
- Howard County2
- Keya Paha County2
- Knox County2
- Madison County2
- Merrick County2
- Nance County2
- Pierce County2
- Platte County2
- Polk County2
- Sherman County2
- Stanton County2
- Valley County2
- Wayne County2
- Wheeler County2
- York County2
- Box Butte County2
- Dawes County2
- Arthur County2
- Deuel County2
- Garden County2
- Grant County2
- Hooker County2
- Keith County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- McPherson County2
- Thomas County2
- Dawson County2
- Furnas County2
- Gosper County2
- Harlan County2
- Phelps County2
- Adams County2
- Buffalo County2
- Clay County2
- Franklin County2
- Hall County2
- Kearney County2
- Nuckolls County2
- Webster County2
- Boone County1
- Boyd County1
- Butler County1
- Seward County1
- Cherry County1
- Sheridan County1
- Fillmore County1
- Hamilton County1
- Thayer 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.