Tornado, Antelope
- When
- May 26, 12:45 PM CST
- Where
- Antelope County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 6.4 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 42.030, -98.180
Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 26, 1980
10 hail, 3 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 13
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
10 hail, 3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Holt
- When
- May 26, 12:55 PM CST
- Where
- Holt County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 7.3 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 42.330, -98.750
Hail, Holt
- When
- May 26, 1:04 PM CST
- Where
- Holt County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.470, -98.630
Tornado, Holt
- When
- May 26, 1:25 PM CST
- Where
- Holt County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 7 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 42.470, -98.700
Hail, Antelope
- When
- May 26, 1:28 PM CST
- Where
- Antelope County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.330, -98.130
Hail, Cedar
- When
- May 26, 1:40 PM CST
- Where
- Cedar County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.700, -97.350
Hail, Antelope
- When
- May 26, 1:50 PM CST
- Where
- Antelope County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.130, -98.080
Hail, Knox
- When
- May 26, 3:07 PM CST
- Where
- Knox County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.670, -98.130
Hail, Knox
- When
- May 26, 4:07 PM CST
- Where
- Knox County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.730, -97.400
Hail, Platte
- When
- May 26, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Platte County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.470, -97.420
Hail, Kearney
- When
- May 26, 9:44 PM CST
- Where
- Kearney County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.620, -98.950
Hail, Madison
- When
- May 26, 10:25 PM CST
- Where
- Madison County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.050, -97.830
Hail, Wayne
- When
- May 26, 10:51 PM CST
- Where
- Wayne County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.230, -97.020
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 Damaging Wind in Florida, May 26, 1980
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, May 26, 1980
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 26, 1980
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 26, 1980
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, May 26, 1980
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, May 26, 1980
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 26, 1980
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 26, 1980
- Hail in Iowa, May 26, 1980
- Hail in Arkansas, May 26, 1980
- Tornado in Montana, May 26, 1980
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: 10064989, 10064990, 10064991, 10064992, 10064993, 10064994, 10064995, 10064996, 10064997, 10064998, 10065006, 10065007, 10065008.