Tornado, Gosper
- When
- September 11, 3:05 PM CST to 3:10 PM CST
- Where
- Gosper County, Elwood to 11 mi SE of Elwood
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1.5 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.430, -99.850
Tornado in Nebraska, September 11, 1999
Isolated severe thunderstorms in south-central Nebraska produced a brief tornado. The tornado set down in rural southern Gosper county and no damage was reported.
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.
Isolated severe thunderstorms in south-central Nebraska produced a brief tornado. The tornado set down in rural southern Gosper county and no damage was reported.
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 120 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:02 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, September 11 to 12, 1999
- Flood in Florida, September 11, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Kansas, September 11 to 12, 1999
- Flood in Florida, September 11, 1999
- Hail in Kansas, September 11, 1999
- Hail in Arizona, September 11, 1999
- Hail in Texas, September 11, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, September 11, 1999
- Hail in South Dakota, September 11, 1999
- Waterspout in Florida, September 11, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, September 11, 1999
- Hail in Arizona, September 11, 1999
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Nebraska, 1999Warnings in Nebraska, September 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: 5713900.