Tornado, Greeley
- When
- May 28, 4:15 PM CST
- Where
- Greeley County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 41.550, -98.600
Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 28, 1959
6 tornado, 1 hail, 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
- 2
- Property damage
- $283,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
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
6 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Hall
- When
- May 28, 4:15 PM CST
- Where
- Hall County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.020, -98.600
Tornado, Buffalo
- When
- May 28, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Buffalo County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 41.030, -98.780
Tornado, Hall
- When
- May 28, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Hall County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 40.830, -98.600
Tornado, Valley
- When
- May 28, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Valley County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 6.4 mi
- Path width
- 250 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 41.400, -99.220
Hail, Merrick
- When
- May 28, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Merrick County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.000, -98.280
Tornado, York
- When
- May 28, 6:45 PM CST
- Where
- York County
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 40.820, -97.720
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, May 28, 1959
- Tornadoes in Kansas, May 28, 1959
- Tornadoes in Wisconsin, May 28, 1959
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, May 28, 1959
- Hail in Texas, May 28, 1959
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 28, 1959
- Tornado in Georgia, May 28, 1959
- Hail in Colorado, May 28, 1959
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, May 28, 1959
More
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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: 10069456, 10069457, 10069458, 10069459, 10069460, 10069461, 10069462.