Tornado, Keith
- When
- June 5, 8:25 PM MST to 8:29 PM MST
- Where
- Keith County, Ogallala to 21 mi NW of Ogallala
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 41.350, -102.000
Tornado in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN ON WEST END OF LAKE MCCONAUGHY. DESTROYED TWO MOBILE HOMES.
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
- 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.
TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN ON WEST END OF LAKE MCCONAUGHY. DESTROYED TWO MOBILE HOMES. DAMAGED ONE HOME AND ONE FARMSTEAD. UPROOTED MANY LARGE TREES.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Tornado in Minnesota, June 5, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kansas, June 5 to 6, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
- Tornado in Kansas, June 5, 1996
- Tornado in Kansas, June 5, 1996
- Tornado in Minnesota, June 5, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, June 5, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kansas, June 5 to 6, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kansas, June 5, 1996
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 5, 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: 5550070.