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1993 tornadoes in Nebraska

69 tornadoes touched down in Nebraska in 1993, 64 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

1992 1994 The whole country in 1993

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

F040 to 72 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
F173 to 112 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
F2113 to 157 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
F3158 to 206 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
F4207 to 260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
F5261 to 318 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Every tornado in Nebraska in 1993

May 5 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 5	5:25 PM MDT	F0	Dawes	0.1	50
May 5	7:00 PM MDT	F1	Box Butte	0.5	80	$500 to $5,000
May 5	7:08 PM MDT	F3	Sheridan	13.0	250	$500,000 to $5 million

May 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 6	6:20 PM CDT	F1	Richardson	8.0	73			$50 to $500

May 7 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 7	5:45 PM CDT	F1	Franklin	10.0	200
May 7	6:35 PM CDT	F1	Sherman	7.0	200	$500,000 to $5 million
May 7	6:50 PM CDT	F1	Webster	7.0	200	$500,000 to $5 million
May 7	6:52 PM CDT	F2	Franklin	40.0	200	$500,000 to $5 million
May 7	7:25 PM CDT	F2	Hall	2.0	150	$500,000 to $5 million
May 7	7:50 PM CDT	F3	Webster	75.0	2,633	$5 million to $50 million

May 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 8	5:30 PM CDT	F1	Harlan	0.1	150

May 14 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 14	7:38 PM CDT	F0	Gage	0.1	50
May 14	7:40 PM CDT	F0	Gage	0.1	50

June 6 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
June 6	8:25 PM CDT	F3	Phelps	60.0	1,760	2	$500,000 to $5 million
June 6	8:53 PM CDT	F2	Buffalo	7.0	880
June 6	9:45 PM CDT	F3	Buffalo	50.0	880
June 6	10:23 PM CDT	F3	Dawson	10.0	880

June 12 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 12	3:15 AM CDT	F0	Saunders	1.0	40	$5,000 to $50,000
June 12	6:00 PM CDT	F0	Merrick	0.5	50
June 12	6:53 PM CDT	F0	Howard	0.5	50
June 12	6:45 PM MDT	F0	Perkins	0.1	13
June 12	7:55 PM CDT	F1	Howard	0.5	50
June 12	8:22 PM CDT	F1	Hall	0.5	50
June 12	8:01 PM MDT	F1	Perkins	0.1	13	$500 to $5,000
June 12	9:15 PM CDT	F1	Merrick	0.5	50

June 22 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 22	2:24 PM MDT	F1	Morrill	2.0	30
June 22	2:24 PM MDT	F1	Morrill	2.0	30
June 22	2:38 PM MDT	F0	Cheyenne	1.0	20
June 22	4:40 PM MDT	F0	Deuel	2.0	40
June 22	4:53 PM MDT	F0	Keith	0.1	40
June 22	5:07 PM MDT	F0	Deuel	0.1	20
June 22	5:20 PM MDT	F0	Deuel	1.5	33
June 22	5:32 PM MDT	F0	Deuel	0.1	20
June 22	5:47 PM MDT	F0	Deuel	1.1	20

June 23 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 23	1:47 PM MDT	F1	Box Butte	1.5	30			$500 to $5,000

June 26 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 26	2:50 PM CDT	F0	Valley	0.5	50
June 26	3:50 PM CDT	F1	Howard	1.0	73
June 26	4:20 PM CDT	F1	Custer	2.0	23	$50 to $500
June 26	5:05 PM CDT	F1	Sherman	0.5	50

July 1 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 1	8:40 PM CDT	F0	Nemaha	0.5	20
July 1	9:40 PM CDT	F0	Nemaha	0.5	20

July 3 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
July 3	4:05 PM CDT	F0	McPherson	0.5	10
July 3	7:15 PM CDT	F1	Dawson	0.5	23	$5,000 to $50,000
July 3	8:30 PM CDT	F0	Holt	0.1	50	$50 to $500

July 4 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 4	3:04 PM CDT	F0	Cass	0.1	20
July 4	3:30 PM CDT	F0	Cass	0.5	40

July 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 7	2:00 AM CDT	F1	Nuckolls	5.0	100			$5,000 to $50,000

July 8 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
July 8	6:15 PM CDT	F0	Lincoln	1.0	23
July 8	8:20 PM CDT	F0	Kearney	0.5	73		$5,000 to $50,000
July 8	10:08 PM CDT	F1	Lancaster	17.0	30
July 8	10:13 PM CDT	F1	Lancaster	5.5	30	1
July 8	10:13 PM CDT	F1	Lancaster	8.0	30	2

July 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 15	9:26 PM MDT	F0	Dawes	0.5	10

July 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 16	10:01 PM MDT	F0	Dawes	0.1	13

July 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 22	7:40 PM CDT	F0	Otoe	0.5	30

July 24 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
July 24	7:35 PM CDT	F3	Jefferson	9.0	1,760		$500,000 to $5 million
July 24	7:45 PM CDT	F2	Jefferson	9.0	300
July 24	8:54 PM CDT	F0	Otoe	1.5	30
July 24	9:10 PM CDT	F0	Otoe	1.0	30
July 24	9:30 PM CDT	F1	Cass	0.5	50		$5,000 to $50,000
July 24	10:00 PM CDT	F2	Cass	0.8	100	1	$500,000 to $5 million

July 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 26	5:04 PM MDT	F2	Scotts Bluff	3.8	100		12	$500,000 to $5 million

August 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 4	8:03 PM CDT	F0	Lincoln	0.2	10

August 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 25	7:11 PM MDT	F0	Kimball	0.2	20

August 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 26	10:27 PM CDT	F1	Thurston	1.2	100			$50,000 to $500,000

August 29 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
August 29	6:30 PM CDT	F1	Sherman	6.0	23	$5,000 to $50,000
August 29	7:05 PM CDT	F1	Pierce	1.0	50	$50,000 to $500,000
August 29	9:15 PM CDT	F1	Dixon	0.5	50	$5,000 to $50,000

October 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 8	4:45 PM CDT	F1	Gage	2.0	100

Nearby

Every tornado in Nebraska since 1950 Warnings in force in Nebraska The live radar over Nebraska

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.