Tornado, Buffalo
- When
- July 25, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Buffalo County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.770, -99.070
Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 25, 1972
3 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- 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
3 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Buffalo
- When
- July 25, 7:05 PM CST
- Where
- Buffalo County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 40.880, -99.080
Tornado, Buffalo
- When
- July 25, 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Buffalo County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 40.780, -98.880
Tornado, Sioux
- When
- July 25, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Sioux County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 42.320, -103.570
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.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, July 25, 1972
- Tornado and Hail in New York, July 25, 1972
- Hail in Vermont, July 25, 1972
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 25, 1972
- Hail in Maine, July 25, 1972
- Hail in Colorado, July 25, 1972
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 25, 1972
- Tornado in South Dakota, July 25, 1972
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: 10064844, 10064845, 10064846, 10064847.