Tornado, Adams
- When
- May 19, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- Adams County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.500, -98.630
Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 19, 1987
4 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
- $30,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 5
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
4 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Clay
- When
- May 19, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 40.620, -98.100
Tornado, Hamilton
- When
- May 19, 6:35 PM CST
- Where
- Hamilton County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 40.800, -98.000
Tornado, Platte
- When
- May 19, 7:50 PM CST
- Where
- Platte County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 41.600, -97.580
Thunderstorm Wind, Nemaha
- When
- May 19, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Nemaha County
- Coordinates
- 40.480, -95.820
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
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, May 19, 1987
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 19, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 19, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 19, 1987
- Tornado and Hail in Wyoming, May 19, 1987
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 19, 1987
- Hail in South Carolina, May 19, 1987
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, May 19, 1987
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, May 19, 1987
- Tornado in Iowa, May 19, 1987
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: 10082034, 10082035, 10078422, 10078637, 10078638.