Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Watches / 2025
Tornado Watches in Nebraska, May 2025
3 tornado watches in May 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 May 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 19, 20252 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Frontier County2
- Hayes County2
- Hitchcock County2
- Lincoln County2
- Red Willow County2
- Merrick County2
- Nance County2
- Arthur County1
- Banner County1
- Chase County1
- Cheyenne County1
- Deuel County1
- Dundy County1
- Garden County1
- Keith County1
- Kimball County1
- McPherson County1
- Morrill County1
- Perkins County1
- Buffalo County1
- Custer County1
- Dawson County1
- Franklin County1
- Furnas County1
- Gosper County1
- Greeley County1
- Hall County1
- Harlan County1
- Howard County1
- Kearney County1
- Phelps County1
- Sherman County1
- Valley County1
- Webster County1
- Antelope County1
- Boone County1
- Butler County1
- Cass County1
- Clay County1
- Colfax County1
23 more counties
- Dodge County1
- Douglas County1
- Fillmore County1
- Gage County1
- Hamilton County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Lancaster County1
- Madison County1
- Nemaha County1
- Otoe County1
- Pawnee County1
- Pierce County1
- Platte County1
- Polk County1
- Richardson County1
- Saline County1
- Sarpy County1
- Saunders County1
- Seward County1
- Stanton County1
- Washington County1
- York 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.