Tornado in Nebraska, July 2, 1999

Name: Tornado in Nebraska, July 2, 1999
Start: 1999-07-02T18:47
End: 1999-07-02T19:05
Location: Nebraska

July 2, 1999 · NWS LBF · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 1
Property damage: $700,000
Crop damage: $1.5 million
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.

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 152 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:49 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Perkins

When: July 2, 6:47 PM CST to 7:05 PM CST
Where: Perkins County, Grant to 9 mi S of Madrid
Rating: F1
Path length: 14 mi
Path width: 400 yd
Injuries: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $700,000
Crop damage: $1.5 million
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 40.730, -101.780

A tornado touched down 9 miles south southwest of Grant and lifted 1 mile south of Madrid. One man sustained minor injuries when his pickup was struck. The pickup was tossed and whirled around. The pickup was a total loss. Other damage included the destruction or damage to 30 center pivot irrigation systems and several barns, grain bins, and quonset buildings were damaged or destroyed. Damage to utilities included the loss of 82 power poles, 25 transformers, 10 high voltage transmission towers.

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

Every storm in Nebraska in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Nebraska, 1999 Warnings in Nebraska, July 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: 5707020.