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Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2025
10 tornado watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest month
- April3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 19, 20252 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 17, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Butler, Cass, Clay, Colfax, Cuming and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 27, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Box Butte, Brown, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne and 16 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 28, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson | 7 hr |
| May 18, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Chase, Cheyenne, Deuel, Dundy and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buffalo, Custer, Dawson, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas and 16 more | 4 hr |
| May 19, 1:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Butler, Cass, Clay, Colfax and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 10, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cedar, Colfax and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 19, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Dawson and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 20, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha, Loup, Rock and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 1, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Merrick County4
- Hayes County4
- Lincoln County4
- Rock County4
- Butler County3
- Colfax County3
- Dodge County3
- Douglas County3
- Platte County3
- Polk County3
- Sarpy County3
- Saunders County3
- Stanton County3
- Washington County3
- Arthur County3
- Brown County3
- Cherry County3
- Cheyenne County3
- Deuel County3
- Garden County3
- Keith County3
- Keya Paha County3
- McPherson County3
- Morrill County3
- Thomas County3
- Frontier County3
- Custer County3
- Nance County3
- Loup County3
- Burt County2
- Cass County2
- Clay County2
- Cuming County2
- Fillmore County2
- Gage County2
- Hamilton County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Lancaster County2
- Otoe County2
50 more counties
- Saline County2
- Seward County2
- Thurston County2
- York County2
- Chase County2
- Grant County2
- Hooker County2
- Logan County2
- Perkins County2
- Sheridan County2
- Nemaha County2
- Pawnee County2
- Richardson County2
- Banner County2
- Hitchcock County2
- Kimball County2
- Red Willow County2
- Dawson County2
- Gosper County2
- Greeley County2
- Howard County2
- Sherman County2
- Valley County2
- Antelope County2
- Boone County2
- Madison County2
- Pierce County2
- Garfield County2
- Holt County2
- Wheeler County2
- Blaine County2
- Nuckolls County1
- Thayer County1
- Box Butte County1
- Dawes County1
- Dundy County1
- Buffalo County1
- Franklin County1
- Furnas County1
- Hall County1
- Harlan County1
- Kearney County1
- Phelps County1
- Webster County1
- Cedar County1
- Dakota County1
- Dixon County1
- Knox County1
- Wayne County1
- Scotts Bluff County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.