Tornado, Cherry
- When
- July 7, 3:05 PM MST to 3:06 PM MST
- Where
- Cherry County, Merriman
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Coordinates
- 42.920, -101.700
Tornado in Nebraska, July 7, 1996
SPOTTER REPORTED BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN NEAR MERRIMAN
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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS LBF wrote it up.
SPOTTER REPORTED BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN NEAR MERRIMAN
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 141 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:07 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 7, 1996
- Hail in South Dakota, July 7, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 7, 1996
- Hail in South Dakota, July 7, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 7, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 7, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 7, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 7, 1996
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Nebraska, 1996Warnings in Nebraska, July 1996
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: 5556909.