Tornado, Fillmore
- When
- April 5, 2:59 PM CST to 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Fillmore County, 2 mi N of Exeter
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 40.680, -97.450
Tornado in Nebraska, April 5, 1999
A brief tornado was spotted two miles north of Exeter. The touchdown occurred over untilled farmland.
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
- None recorded
- 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 GID wrote it up.
A brief tornado was spotted two miles north of Exeter. The touchdown occurred over untilled farmland. No damage was reported.
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:59 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 Damaging Winds in Arkansas, April 5, 1999
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 5 to 9, 1999
- Tornado in Arkansas, April 5, 1999
- Tornadoes in Illinois, April 5, 1999
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Iowa, April 5, 1999
- Tornado in Missouri, April 5, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, April 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 5, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, April 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, April 5, 1999
- Tornado in Nebraska, April 5, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Illinois, April 5, 1999
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Nebraska, 1999Warnings in Nebraska, April 1999
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: 5689849.