Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Watches / 2024
Tornado Watches in Nebraska, May 2024
6 tornado watches in May 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 May 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 6, 20242 tornado watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Frontier County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- Burt County2
- Butler County2
- Cass County2
- Cedar County2
- Colfax County2
- Cuming County2
- Dodge County2
- Douglas County2
- Gage County2
- Johnson County2
- Lancaster County2
- Nemaha County2
- Otoe County2
- Pawnee County2
- Richardson County2
- Saline County2
- Sarpy County2
- Saunders County2
- Seward County2
- Stanton County2
- Thurston County2
- Washington County2
- Wayne County2
- Dakota County2
- Dixon County2
- Dundy County2
- Adams County1
- Blaine County1
- Boyd County1
- Brown County1
- Buffalo County1
- Cherry County1
- Clay County1
- Custer County1
- Dawson County1
- Fillmore County1
- Franklin County1
42 more counties
- Furnas County1
- Garfield County1
- Gosper County1
- Greeley County1
- Hall County1
- Hamilton County1
- Harlan County1
- Holt County1
- Howard County1
- Kearney County1
- Keya Paha County1
- Loup County1
- Merrick County1
- Nance County1
- Nuckolls County1
- Phelps County1
- Polk County1
- Rock County1
- Sherman County1
- Thayer County1
- Thomas County1
- Valley County1
- Webster County1
- Wheeler County1
- York County1
- Antelope County1
- Boone County1
- Jefferson County1
- Knox County1
- Madison County1
- Pierce County1
- Platte County1
- Arthur County1
- Chase County1
- Deuel County1
- Garden County1
- Hayes County1
- Hitchcock County1
- Keith County1
- McPherson County1
- Perkins County1
- Red Willow County1
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.