Tornado in Nebraska, June 4, 1999

Name: Tornado in Nebraska, June 4, 1999
Start: 1999-06-04T20:10
End: 1999-06-04T20:22
Location: Nebraska

June 4, 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: 0
Property damage: $50,000
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.

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 7 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:11 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Thomas

When: June 4, 8:10 PM CST to 8:22 PM CST
Where: Thomas County, Thedford to 3 mi N of Thedford
Rating: F2
Path length: 4 mi
Path width: 250 yd
Property damage: $50,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 42.020, -100.600

The tornado, observed by numerous storm chasers, including the VORTEX team, and the general public, touched down in Thomas County 3 miles north northwest of Thedford and was on the ground for 15 miles before lifting in southeast Cherry County 6 miles east southeast of Brownlee. The path was over rangeland destroying 9 windmills, several miles of fences and nemerous trees. This was the most significant of 6 tornadoes produced by the same supercell thunderstorm.

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, June 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: 5706167.