Tornado, Dawson
- When
- July 6, 3:25 PM CST
- Where
- Dawson County, 5 mi E of Cozad
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Crop damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 40.870, -99.870
Tornadoes in Nebraska, July 6, 1998
Two small and short lived tornadoes were spawned from an isolated thunderstorm over central Dawson county. In each case, reports indicated the tornadoes lasted only a few seconds and touched down in the middle of cornfields.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
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- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- $40,000
- Events
- 2
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 GID wrote it up.
Two small and short lived tornadoes were spawned from an isolated thunderstorm over central Dawson county. In each case, reports indicated the tornadoes lasted only a few seconds and touched down in the middle of cornfields.
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 135 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:23 UTC.
Event by event
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Dawson
- When
- July 6, 3:45 PM CST
- Where
- Dawson County, 8 mi N of Lexington
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Crop damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
- Coordinates
- 40.900, -99.730
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
- Heat in Oklahoma, July 6 to 31, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 6, 1998
- Drought in Oklahoma, July 6 to 31, 1998
- Flooding in Iowa, July 6 to 10, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 6, 1998
- Hail in South Dakota, July 6, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Arizona, July 6 to 31, 1998
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Iowa, July 6 to 7, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, July 6, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 6, 1998
- Hail in Montana, July 6, 1998
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 6, 1998
More
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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: 5650180, 5650181.