High Wind, Cuming
- When
- October 12, 9:45 AM CST to 10:45 AM CST
- Where
- Cuming forecast zone
- Measured
- 46 kt (53 mph)
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Coordinates
- 41.916, -96.787 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Nebraska, October 12, 1997
High winds damaged a barn about 5 miles south of the town of Pender in extreme northern Cuming county destroyed a barn.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- 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.
High winds damaged a barn about 5 miles south of the town of Pender in extreme northern Cuming county destroyed a barn.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, October 12, 1997
- High Wind in South Dakota, October 12 to 13, 1997
- High Wind in California, October 12 to 14, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, October 12, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, October 12, 1997
- Heat in Wisconsin, October 12, 1997
- Waterspout in U.S. Virgin Islands, October 12, 1997
- Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, October 12, 1997
- Flood in Puerto Rico, October 12, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, October 12, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, October 12, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, October 12, 1997
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, October 1997
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5623190.