Tornado, Boone
- When
- April 21, 4:15 PM CST
- Where
- Boone County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 41.570, -98.150
Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, April 21, 1985
7 hail, 6 tornado, 6 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
- $258,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 19
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
7 hail, 6 tornado, 6 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Boone
- When
- April 21, 4:20 PM CST
- Where
- Boone County
- Coordinates
- 41.570, -97.870
Hail, Adams
- When
- April 21, 4:50 PM CST
- Where
- Adams County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.470, -98.650
Tornado, Buffalo
- When
- April 21, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Buffalo County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 40.730, -98.830
Hail, Hall
- When
- April 21, 5:10 PM CST
- Where
- Hall County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.000, -98.720
Hail, Boone
- When
- April 21, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Boone County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.850, -98.080
Tornado, Madison
- When
- April 21, 5:37 PM CST
- Where
- Madison County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 42.030, -97.550
Tornado, Pierce
- When
- April 21, 5:40 PM CST
- Where
- Pierce County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 42.170, -97.580
Tornado, Pierce
- When
- April 21, 6:27 PM CST
- Where
- Pierce County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 42.130, -97.530
Hail, Adams
- When
- April 21, 6:35 PM CST
- Where
- Adams County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.670, -98.570
Hail, Adams
- When
- April 21, 6:35 PM CST
- Where
- Adams County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.580, -98.380
Thunderstorm Wind, Adams
- When
- April 21, 6:35 PM CST
- Where
- Adams County
- Coordinates
- 40.580, -98.520
Hail, Madison
- When
- April 21, 8:07 PM CST
- Where
- Madison County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.030, -97.420
Hail, Hall
- When
- April 21, 8:15 PM CST
- Where
- Hall County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.820, -98.600
Thunderstorm Wind, Adams
- When
- April 21, 10:10 PM CST
- Where
- Adams County
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Coordinates
- 40.470, -98.550
Thunderstorm Wind, Adams
- When
- April 21, 10:10 PM CST
- Where
- Adams County
- Measured
- 51 kt (59 mph)
- Coordinates
- 40.580, -98.380
Thunderstorm Wind, Thayer
- When
- April 21, 10:40 PM CST
- Where
- Thayer County
- Coordinates
- 40.150, -97.720
Tornado, Thayer
- When
- April 21, 10:45 PM CST
- Where
- Thayer County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 60 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 40.320, -97.800
Thunderstorm Wind, Adams
- When
- April 21, 11:08 PM CST
- Where
- Adams County
- Measured
- 51 kt (59 mph)
- Coordinates
- 40.580, -98.380
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.
- 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 Texas, April 21, 1985
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, April 21, 1985
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, April 21, 1985
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, April 21, 1985
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, April 21, 1985
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, April 21, 1985
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, April 21, 1985
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in North Dakota, April 21, 1985
- Hail in Michigan, April 21, 1985
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, April 21, 1985
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: 10067928, 10067929, 10067930, 10067931, 10067932, 10067933, 10067934, 10067935, 10067936, 10067937, 10067938, 10067939, 10067940, 10067941, 10067942, 10067943, 10067944, 10067945, 10067946.