Tornado, Scotts Bluff
- When
- May 21, 10:03 AM MST to 10:18 AM MST
- Where
- Scotts Bluff County, Morrill to 3 mi ESE of Morrill
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 4 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Crop damage
- $2,000
- Coordinates
- 41.930, -103.970
Tornado in Nebraska, May 21, 1998
A tornado touched down 3 miles southwest of Morrill and moved within 1 mile east southeast of Morrill. A two-car garage was destroyed and a roof ripped off a shed, 2 miles southwest of Morrill.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $15,000
- Crop damage
- $2,000
- 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 CYS wrote it up.
A tornado touched down 3 miles southwest of Morrill and moved within 1 mile east southeast of Morrill. A two-car garage was destroyed and a roof ripped off a shed, 2 miles southwest of Morrill. Windows were blown out in a mobile home park and a barn was destroyed just to the southeast of Morrill. Shingles were blown off a house to the east southeast of Morrill.
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 111 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:01 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 21, 1998
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- Hail and Heavy Rain in Nebraska, May 21, 1998
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- Flash Flood and Hail in Tennessee, May 21, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in Utah, May 21, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 21, 1998
- Tornado in Nebraska, May 21, 1998
- Tornado in Missouri, May 21, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, May 21, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 21, 1998
- Hail in Colorado, May 21, 1998
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Nebraska, 1998Warnings in Nebraska, May 1998
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: 5641609.