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Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2024
15 tornado watches in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 15
- Busiest month
- April7 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 16, 20243 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 15, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Dawson, Franklin, Furnas, Gosper and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 16, 2:14 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Clay, Colfax and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 12:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Cedar, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon, Madison and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 25, 2:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chase, Dundy, Hayes, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 12:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler and 45 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 11:51 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Pawnee, Richardson | 8 hr |
| Apr 30, 1:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota and 19 more | 8 hr |
| May 6, 11:34 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo, Cherry and 33 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 24 more | 8 hr |
| May 6, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dakota, Dixon | 7 hr |
| May 20, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dundy | 7 hr |
| May 20, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Chase, Deuel, Dundy, Frontier, Garden and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 11:10 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 19 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 35 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Custer, Dawson, Fillmore and 24 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Burt County7
- Cuming County7
- Pawnee County7
- Richardson County7
- Stanton County7
- Butler County6
- Cass County6
- Colfax County6
- Dodge County6
- Douglas County6
- Gage County6
- Johnson County6
- Lancaster County6
- Madison County6
- Nemaha County6
- Otoe County6
- Saline County6
- Sarpy County6
- Saunders County6
- Seward County6
- Washington County6
- Dakota County6
- Thurston County6
- Clay County5
- Fillmore County5
- Hamilton County5
- Jefferson County5
- Merrick County5
- Nance County5
- Platte County5
- Polk County5
- Thayer County5
- York County5
- Cedar County5
- Dixon County5
- Wayne County5
- Adams County4
- Buffalo County4
- Hall County4
- Kearney County4
42 more counties
- Boone County4
- Greeley County4
- Howard County4
- Nuckolls County4
- Sherman County4
- Valley County4
- Dawson County3
- Franklin County3
- Furnas County3
- Gosper County3
- Harlan County3
- Phelps County3
- Webster County3
- Dundy County3
- Hayes County3
- Hitchcock County3
- Red Willow County3
- Antelope County3
- Knox County3
- Pierce County3
- Frontier County3
- Lincoln County3
- Chase County2
- Garfield County2
- Holt County2
- Wheeler County2
- Custer County2
- Logan County2
- Blaine County1
- Boyd County1
- Brown County1
- Cherry County1
- Keya Paha County1
- Loup County1
- Rock County1
- Thomas County1
- Arthur County1
- Deuel County1
- Garden County1
- Keith County1
- McPherson County1
- Perkins 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.