Tornado, Colfax
- When
- August 13, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Colfax County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 3.3 mi
- Path width
- 1,300 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.470, -97.280
Tornadoes in Nebraska, August 13, 1952
4 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 21
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
4 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Butler
- When
- August 13, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Butler County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 41.1 mi
- Path width
- 1,300 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Coordinates
- 41.350, -97.170
Tornado, Saunders
- When
- August 13, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Saunders County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 19.4 mi
- Path width
- 110 yd
- Injuries
- 20 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 41.220, -96.580
Tornado, Cass
- When
- August 13, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Cass County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 7.3 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 41.020, -96.320
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10073804, 10073805, 10073806, 10073807.