Tornado in Nebraska, October 16, 1994

Name: Tornado in Nebraska, October 16, 1994
Start: 1994-10-16T17:30
End: 1994-10-16T17:30
Location: Nebraska

October 16, 1994 · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $10,000
Crop damage: $700
Events: 1

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

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Custer

When: October 16, 5:30 PM CST
Where: Custer County, Arnold
Rating: F0
Path length: 2 mi
Path width: 100 yd
Property damage: $10,000
Crop damage: $700
Coordinates: 41.400, -100.250

A small tornado moved southwest to northeast and caused damage over a two mile path to two farmsteads. The tornado tore metal roofing off of outbuildings, picked up a chicken house, and turned it around at the first farmstead. It destroyed large cane stacks enroute to the second farmstead. Four windows were sucked out of the home, uprooted trees in a windbreak destroyed three hog sheds, a grain bin, a metal shed, and fences.

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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Nebraska in 1994 Every state in 1994 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Nebraska, 1994 Warnings in Nebraska, October 1994

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: 10333759.