Tornado, Custer
- When
- May 30, 10:50 AM CST
- Where
- Custer County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 23 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.700, -99.450
Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 30, 1991
5 tornado, 3 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 8
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
5 tornado, 3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Scotts Bluff
- When
- May 30, 5:50 PM CST
- Where
- Scotts Bluff County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.970, -103.930
Hail, Scotts Bluff
- When
- May 30, 6:12 PM CST
- Where
- Scotts Bluff County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.980, -103.800
Tornado, Harlan
- When
- May 30, 6:50 PM CST
- Where
- Harlan County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 40.130, -99.580
Hail, Scotts Bluff
- When
- May 30, 6:50 PM CST
- Where
- Scotts Bluff County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.970, -104.030
Tornado, Harlan
- When
- May 30, 7:20 PM CST
- Where
- Harlan County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 40.280, -99.370
Tornado, Loup
- When
- May 30, 9:45 PM CST
- Where
- Loup County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 13 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.750, -99.380
Tornado, Garfield
- When
- May 30, 9:45 PM CST
- Where
- Garfield County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 13 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.770, -99.100
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
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- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in North Dakota, May 30, 1991
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Michigan, May 30, 1991
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, May 30, 1991
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, May 30, 1991
- Tornado and Hail in Pennsylvania, May 30, 1991
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, May 30, 1991
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, May 30, 1991
- Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, May 30, 1991
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, May 30, 1991
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, May 30, 1991
- Hail in Oklahoma, May 30, 1991
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 1991Every state in 1991This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Nebraska, 1991Warnings in Nebraska, May 1991
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: 10082308, 10082309, 10082310, 10082311, 10082312, 10082313, 10082314, 10082315.