Nebraska, 2001

Tornado in Nebraska, June 12, 2001

June 12, 2001 · NWS CYS · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 12, 12:00 PM MST, 5 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 12:00 PM MST, 5 hours 13 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
100 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2001

OVERALL TREND IN MODELS HAS BEEN TO SLOW SYSTEM DOWN AND DIG UPPER
LOW FURTHER S.  IN SHORT TERM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE
OVER SE WY INTO THE PNHNDL...HOWEVER APPEARS THAT CAP WILL KEEP
STORMS MINIMAL THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON...THEN AS SOME BETTER UPPER
SUPPORT SHIFTS E...STORMS LIKELY TO TAKE OFF IN SPOTS.  MESOETA
STILL POINTS TO NRN PNHNDL AS MOST LIKELY AREA...WITH DRIER AIR ON
S/SW WINDS MIXING DOWN ACROSS MUCH OF SE WY INTO THE SRN PART OF THE
PNHNDL BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON.  WILL KEEP EYE ON THINGS FOR NOW.
ONCE WE REACH 10 PM OR SO...COLD FRONT AND SURFACE LOW SHIFTING SE
OF AREA...WITH MDT NW SFC WINDS KICKING IN.  MODELS POINT TO MAIN
FRONTAL BAND OF CLDS/SHWRS MOVING OUT OF AREA BY LATE TONIGHT...WITH
MUCH OF AREA IN A DRY SLOT ON WED AS UPPER LOW BEGINS SHIFTING E BY
SUNSET.  ALL MODELS SHOW ANOTHER SHOT OF MOISTURE/SHWRS ASSOCD WITH
UPPER LOW MOVING INTO AREA WED NIGHT INTO THU MORNING.  SHOULD BE
COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW SHOWERS ABOVE 6000 FEET OR SO...COULD SEE A FEW
INCHES HIGHER SE MOUNTAINS.  BY THU AFTN...ENTIRE SYS E OF AREA WITH
DRYING.  TEMPS TRICKY...LOOKS LIKE HIGHS ON WED NOT AS COLD AS EARLY
FCSTS HAD...AND THU COOLER THAN EARLY THOT.  GOOD DOWNSLOPE NW WINDS
BOTH DAYS...SO WILL LEAN TOWARDS GUIDANCE WHICH HAS BOTH DAYS WITHIN
5 DEGREES OF EACH OTHER.  IN EXTENDED...A RETURN TO A MORE
SUMMERLIKE PATTERN WITH A FLAT UPPER RIDGE BUILDING INTO THE REGION
ON FRI INTO THE WEEKEND.  LOOKS LIKE FRI WILL BE MOSTLY DRY...A
SLIGHT CHC ON SAT...THEN A CHC SUN-TUE.  APPEARS THAT MRF MEX/FMR
GUIDANCE IS LEANING TOWARDS CLIMO AS MRF APPEARS TO BE FAIRLY DRY.
SINCE PREVIOUS EXTENDED ALREADY HAD SOME MENTION OF LATE DAY
STORMS...WILL KEEP IT GOING FOR NOW AS SOMETIMES IT IS HARD TO GAGE
HOW MUCH MOISTURE WILL ACTUALLY BE AROUND LATE IN EXTENDED PERIODS.

.CYS...
WY...NONE.
NE...NONE.

JAD

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 12, 1:22 PM MST, 3 hours 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE, WY
222 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2001

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
I
0159 PM    20 N DOUGLAS              WY   TORNADO
06/12/01   CONVERSE                       REPORTED BY SPOTTER

JR
Local storm report, Jun 12, 2:22 PM MST, 2 hours 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE, WY
322 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2001

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0305 PM    13 W MULE CREEK JUNCTION  WY   TORNADO
06/12/01   NIOBRARA                       BRIEF TOUCHDOWN

JR
Local storm report, Jun 12, 2:37 PM MST, 2 hours 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE, WY
337 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2001

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0315 PM    5 N LANCE CREEK WY             1.00 INCH HAIL
06/12/01   NIOBRARA

JAD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 133 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:12 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Dawes

When
June 12, 5:13 PM MST to 5:16 PM MST
Where
Dawes County, 12 mi NW of Chadron
Rating
F0
Path length
0.2 mi
Path width
25 yd
Reported by
NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
Coordinates
42.950, -103.167

Brief tornado reported by off-duty NWS personnel.

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

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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: 5255781.