Tornado, Banner
- When
- May 30, 10:48 AM MST
- Where
- Banner County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.450, -103.480
Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 30, 1971
13 tornado, 2 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
- 1
- Property damage
- $150,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 15
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
13 tornado, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Dundy
- When
- May 30, 1:08 PM CST
- Where
- Dundy County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.330, -101.680
Hail, Chase
- When
- May 30, 1:10 PM CST
- Where
- Chase County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.500, -101.580
Tornado, Dundy
- When
- May 30, 1:20 PM CST
- Where
- Dundy County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 22.3 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.370, -101.530
Tornado, Gosper
- When
- May 30, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Gosper County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.700, -99.830
Tornado, Dawson
- When
- May 30, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Dawson County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.730, -99.780
Tornado, Dawson
- When
- May 30, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Dawson County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.770, -99.750
Hail, Gosper
- When
- May 30, 3:55 PM CST
- Where
- Gosper County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.700, -99.780
Tornado, Dundy
- When
- May 30, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dundy County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 40.050, -101.530
Tornado, Buffalo
- When
- May 30, 4:40 PM CST
- Where
- Buffalo County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 26.7 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 40.730, -99.380
Tornado, Kearney
- When
- May 30, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Kearney County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.500, -98.950
Tornado, Frontier
- When
- May 30, 5:55 PM CST
- Where
- Frontier County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 40.650, -100.600
Tornado, Lincoln
- When
- May 30, 5:55 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 40.750, -100.750
Tornado, Custer
- When
- May 30, 5:55 PM CST
- Where
- Custer County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.300, -99.380
Tornado, Pawnee
- When
- May 30, 10:30 PM CST
- Where
- Pawnee County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 40.270, -96.100
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
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: 10065948, 10065949, 10065950, 10065951, 10065952, 10065953, 10065954, 10065955, 10065956, 10065957, 10065958, 10065959, 10065960, 10065961, 10065962.