Tornado, Dodge
- When
- June 20, 8:45 PM CST to 8:50 PM CST
- Where
- Dodge County, Fremont to 3 mi S of Fremont
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Coordinates
- 41.450, -96.550
Tornado in Nebraska, June 20, 1996
A tornado touched down in the Fremont area and did the most significant damage in the Fremont Lakes recreation area. While sending 30 campers to a brick shelter, a tornado did damage to 5 camping trailers and resulted in several downed trees.
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
- $50,000
- 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 OAX wrote it up.
A tornado touched down in the Fremont area and did the most significant damage in the Fremont Lakes recreation area. While sending 30 campers to a brick shelter, a tornado did damage to 5 camping trailers and resulted in several downed trees.
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 21 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:42 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
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 20, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 20, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 20, 1996
- Hail in Texas, June 20, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 20, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 20, 1996
- Flooding in Iowa, June 20 to 28, 1996
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 20, 1996
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 20, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 20, 1996
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 20, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 20, 1996
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Nebraska, 1996Warnings in Nebraska, June 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: 5562263.