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Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2026
16 tornado watches in 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 16
- Busiest month
- June8 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 17, 20262 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha and 3 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Fillmore, Franklin, Gage and 11 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 23, 12:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burt, Cass, Dodge, Douglas, Gage, Jefferson and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 17, 1:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boyd, Burt, Cedar, Cuming, Dakota and 12 more | 8 hr |
| May 17, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Cass, Clay and 33 more | 8 hr |
| May 18, 12:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Chase, Cherry, Custer, Deuel and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Hitchcock, Kearney and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 8, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dundy | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo and 36 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 9, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cedar, Colfax and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 10, 2:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Richardson | 9 hr |
| Jun 20, 2:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banner, Chase, Cheyenne, Deuel, Dundy, Frontier and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 24, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 27, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherry, Sheridan | 11 hr |
| Sep 14, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Cass, Dodge, Douglas, Gage, Jefferson and 10 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Gage County6
- Jefferson County6
- Johnson County5
- Nemaha County5
- Otoe County5
- Pawnee County5
- Richardson County5
- Cass County4
- Lancaster County4
- Kearney County4
- Saline County4
- Dodge County4
- Saunders County4
- Washington County4
- Adams County3
- Buffalo County3
- Clay County3
- Fillmore County3
- Franklin County3
- Hall County3
- Hamilton County3
- Nuckolls County3
- Phelps County3
- Webster County3
- York County3
- Burt County3
- Douglas County3
- Sarpy County3
- Thurston County3
- Butler County3
- Seward County3
- Cherry County3
- Deuel County3
- Dundy County3
- Frontier County3
- Hayes County3
- Hitchcock County3
- Perkins County3
- Red Willow County3
- Harlan County2
53 more counties
- Thayer County2
- Antelope County2
- Boyd County2
- Cedar County2
- Cuming County2
- Dakota County2
- Dixon County2
- Garfield County2
- Holt County2
- Knox County2
- Loup County2
- Madison County2
- Pierce County2
- Rock County2
- Stanton County2
- Wayne County2
- Wheeler County2
- Boone County2
- Colfax County2
- Greeley County2
- Howard County2
- Merrick County2
- Nance County2
- Platte County2
- Polk County2
- Sherman County2
- Valley County2
- Arthur County2
- Blaine County2
- Chase County2
- Custer County2
- Garden County2
- Grant County2
- Hooker County2
- Keith County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- McPherson County2
- Sheridan County2
- Thomas County2
- Gosper County2
- Banner County2
- Cheyenne County2
- Kimball County2
- Morrill County2
- Furnas County1
- Brown County1
- Dawson County1
- Keya Paha County1
- Box Butte County1
- Dawes County1
- Scotts Bluff County1
- Sioux County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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.