Tornado in Nebraska, October 29, 2000

Name: Tornado in Nebraska, October 29, 2000
Start: 2000-10-29T17:16
End: 2000-10-29T17:19
Location: Nebraska

October 29, 2000 · NWS OAX · 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: $5,000
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 Omaha radar (KOAX), 73 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:14 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Otoe

When: October 29, 5:16 PM CST to 5:19 PM CST
Where: Otoe County, 1 mi S of Unadilla
Rating: F0
Path length: 2 mi
Path width: 50 yd
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 40.667, -96.267

The third and last cyclic tornado that formed from the apparent same thunderstorm touched down 1 mile south of Unadilla, tracked near town then lifted 1 mile north of Unadilla. The tornado took the roof off of a machine shed 1 mile north of town and damaged a roof of a garage by driving 2 boards through the roof.

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

Every storm in Nebraska in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Nebraska, 2000 Warnings in Nebraska, October 2000

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: 5157923.