Tornadoes · United States · Nebraska

1994 tornadoes in Nebraska

55 tornadoes touched down in Nebraska in 1994, 31 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

1993 1995 The whole country in 1994

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 1994

April 25 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 25	4:35 PM CDT	F1	Merrick	3.0	23		$50,000 to $500,000
April 25	4:45 PM CDT	F0	Antelope	0.1	50
April 25	5:00 PM CDT	F0	Antelope	0.1	50
April 25	5:35 PM CDT	F0	Pierce	0.1	23
April 25	5:45 PM CDT	F1	Knox	7.0	200	1	$50,000 to $500,000
April 25	5:45 PM CDT	F0	Knox	1.5	23

May 5 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 5	7:25 PM CDT	F0	Hamilton	0.1	23
May 5	8:05 PM CDT	F0	Fillmore	0.1	23
May 5	8:05 PM CDT	F0	Hamilton	0.1	23
May 5	8:15 PM CDT	F0	Hamilton	0.3	23
May 5	8:25 PM CDT	F0	York	0.1	23
May 5	8:30 PM CDT	F0	Hamilton	0.1	23
May 5	8:35 PM CDT	F0	Hamilton	0.1	23
May 5	9:10 PM CDT	F0	Clay	0.1	23
May 5	9:35 PM CDT	F0	Clay	0.1	23
May 5	9:35 PM CDT	F0	Fillmore	0.1	23
May 5	9:35 PM CDT	F0	Fillmore	0.1	23
May 5	9:35 PM CDT	F0	Fillmore	0.1	23

May 23 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 23	7:00 PM MDT	F0	Grant	1.0	50
May 23	7:00 PM MDT	F0	Grant	1.0	50

June 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 4	7:05 PM MDT	F3	Sheridan	12.0	500			$500 to $5,000

June 7 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 7	8:15 AM CDT	F1	Adams	2.0	50
June 7	8:17 AM CDT	F1	Adams	0.8	50

June 8 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 8	1:50 PM MDT	F0	Morrill	0.5	20
June 8	2:20 PM MDT	F0	Scotts Bluff	0.5	20
June 8	3:23 PM MDT	F0	Dawes	0.5	20
June 8	4:30 PM MDT	F0	Garden	0.8	23
June 8	5:10 PM MDT	F0	Deuel	0.8	20

June 12 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 12	7:25 PM CDT	F0	Madison	0.1	23	under $50
June 12	8:48 PM CDT	F1	Cuming	0.1	23
June 12	9:14 PM CDT	F1	Cuming	0.1	23
June 12	9:15 PM CDT	F0	Cuming	0.1	23
June 12	9:20 PM CDT	F1	Cuming	0.1	23

June 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 24	5:15 PM CDT	F1	Holt	0.1	73			$50,000 to $500,000

July 1 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
July 1	3:36 PM MDT	F0	Hooker	0.5	23
July 1	6:45 PM CDT	F1	Hamilton	0.3	23
July 1	7:03 PM CDT	F1	Clay	7.0	73
July 1	7:45 PM CDT	F0	Gage	0.5	50	$500,000 to $5 million

July 4 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 4	1:20 AM CDT	F0	York	0.3	50		1
July 4	10:30 PM CDT	F1	Holt	0.5	50			$50,000 to $500,000

July 6 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
July 6	4:20 PM MDT	F0	Grant	0.5	23
July 6	5:00 PM MDT	F2	Morrill	6.0	150	1	$500,000 to $5 million
July 6	5:50 PM MDT	F1	Sioux	2.0	33		$5,000 to $50,000

July 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 25	5:35 PM MDT	F1	Banner	0.1	10

September 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 6	8:51 PM CDT	F0	Hitchcock	0.1	20

October 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 5	10:20 PM MDT	F1	Keith	0.5	100			$50,000 to $500,000

October 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 16	6:30 PM CDT	F0	Custer	2.0	100			$5,000 to $50,000

October 17 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 17	3:24 PM CDT	F0	Antelope	0.1	10
October 17	3:55 PM CDT	F0	Phelps	0.1	23
October 17	3:55 PM CDT	F0	Phelps	0.1	23
October 17	3:55 PM CDT	F2	Phelps	4.0	73	$50,000 to $500,000
October 17	4:01 PM CDT	F0	Phelps	0.2	23
October 17	4:48 PM CDT	F1	Buffalo	1.0	50
October 17	5:43 PM CDT	F1	Howard	3.0	50
October 17	8:50 PM CDT	F0	Stanton	0.3	20	$5,000 to $50,000

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.