Tornadoes · United States · Nebraska

1999 tornadoes in Nebraska

102 tornadoes touched down in Nebraska in 1999, 142 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

1998 2000 The whole country in 1999

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 1999

April 5 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 5	2:28 PM CDT	F0	Richardson	0.0	20	$10,000
April 5	2:32 PM CDT	F0	Richardson	0.0	40	$3,000
April 5	2:38 PM CDT	F1	Richardson	0.1	60	$10,000
April 5	2:45 PM CDT	F0	Richardson	1.5	80	$4,000
April 5	3:59 PM CDT	F0	Fillmore	0.2	10

April 8 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 8	11:00 AM CDT	F1	Hamilton	4.0	50	$300,000
April 8	11:54 AM CDT	F1	Merrick	3.0	40	$200,000
April 8	11:56 AM CDT	F0	Nance	1.0	10	$10,000
April 8	12:22 PM CDT	F0	Boone	1.0	40	$10,000
April 8	1:06 PM CDT	F1	Colfax	4.0	150	$540,000
April 8	1:07 PM CDT	F1	Saunders	1.5	400	$380,000
April 8	1:12 PM CDT	F0	Saunders	3.5	70	$40,000
April 8	1:48 PM CDT	F0	Washington	0.1	30	$10,000

April 21 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 21	11:50 AM CDT	F2	Howard	2.0	30	$100,000
April 21	12:15 PM CDT	F0	Howard	0.3	20	$20,000
April 21	7:20 PM CDT	F0	Cass	0.0	10

May 2 10 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 2	3:30 PM CDT	F0	Furnas	0.5	0	$10,000
May 2	3:37 PM CDT	F1	Gosper	4.5	60	$70,000
May 2	4:36 PM CDT	F0	Harlan	1.0	0
May 2	4:42 PM CDT	F1	Phelps	4.0	50	$100,000
May 2	5:00 PM CDT	F1	Franklin	3.0	0	$200,000
May 2	6:03 PM CDT	F1	Kearney	12.0	47	$200,000
May 2	6:11 PM CDT	F2	Adams	10.0	250	$300,000
May 2	6:48 PM CDT	F0	Adams	1.5	0
May 2	7:17 PM CDT	F1	Hall	1.5	0	$100,000
May 2	8:06 PM CDT	F2	Merrick	11.0	0	$250,000

May 3 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 3	8:20 PM CDT	F1	Holt	15.0	100	$750,000
May 3	8:27 PM CDT	F0	Antelope	3.0	40	$10,000
May 3	8:51 PM CDT	F0	Knox	6.0	70	$10,000
May 3	9:24 PM CDT	F0	Knox	0.0	20
May 3	9:25 PM CDT	F0	Cedar	3.5	40	$10,000
May 3	9:26 PM CDT	F1	Cedar	4.0	70	$50,000
May 3	9:32 PM CDT	F0	Knox	0.0	20

May 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 14	1:20 PM MDT	F0	Kimball	0.1	50

May 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 16	3:03 PM CDT	F0	Cass to IA	2.0	60			$10,000

May 22 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 22	4:56 PM CDT	F0	Dixon	0.1	50
May 22	4:56 PM CDT	F0	Dixon	0.1	50
May 22	7:02 PM CDT	F0	Hitchcock	0.2	20

May 30 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 30	6:15 PM CDT	F0	Dixon	0.1	50
May 30	7:13 PM CDT	F1	Dawson	5.0	100			$50,000

June 3 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 3	7:55 PM MDT	F1	Cherry	17.0	300	$50,000
June 3	8:50 PM MDT	F0	Cherry	2.0	50
June 3	10:35 PM CDT	F2	Custer	5.5	300	$300,000
June 3	11:20 PM CDT	F3	Valley	14.0	1,000	$1.5 million
June 3	12:18 AM CDT	F0	Antelope	0.1	20

June 4 13 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 4	12:44 AM MDT	F0	Cherry	1.0	50
June 4	1:50 AM CDT	F0	Madison	0.0	20	$10,000
June 4	2:00 AM CDT	F0	Stanton	0.0	20
June 4	1:08 AM MDT	F0	Cherry	1.0	50
June 4	5:15 PM MDT	F0	Sioux	0.1	30
June 4	5:28 PM MDT	F0	Dawes	0.1	30
June 4	8:03 PM MDT	F0	Hooker	1.0	50
June 4	8:05 PM MDT	F0	Cherry	8.0	50
June 4	9:10 PM CDT	F2	Thomas	4.0	250	$50,000
June 4	8:22 PM MDT	F2	Cherry	19.0	250	$50,000
June 4	8:30 PM MDT	F0	Cherry	2.0	50	$10,000
June 4	8:35 PM MDT	F1	Cherry	5.0	50	$50,000
June 4	8:55 PM MDT	F0	Cherry	2.0	50

June 5 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 5	4:58 PM MDT	F0	Sheridan	1.0	50
June 5	4:58 PM MDT	F0	Sheridan	1.0	50
June 5	5:05 PM MDT	F0	Sheridan	2.0	50
June 5	5:11 PM MDT	F0	Sheridan	1.0	50
June 5	5:29 PM MDT	F0	Sheridan	1.0	50
June 5	5:30 PM MDT	F0	Sheridan	1.0	50
June 5	5:40 PM MDT	F1	Sheridan	2.0	200
June 5	8:16 PM CDT	F0	Rock	3.5	50	$70,000
June 5	8:29 PM CDT	F1	Rock	2.5	250	$750,000

June 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 9	9:10 PM CDT	F0	York	0.2	30

June 10 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 10	6:55 PM MDT	F0	Sioux	0.3	30
June 10	7:00 PM MDT	F0	Sioux	0.2	30
June 10	7:30 PM MDT	F0	Sioux	0.2	30
June 10	8:21 PM MDT	F0	Sioux	0.1	30

June 23 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 23	9:32 PM CDT	F0	Kearney	0.5	20

June 26 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 26	6:26 PM MDT	F0	Banner	0.1	0
June 26	8:51 PM CDT	F1	Red Willow	0.5	250	$10,000
June 26	9:15 PM CDT	F0	Red Willow	0.2	100
June 26	8:27 PM MDT	F0	Cheyenne	0.1	40

June 27 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 27	5:43 PM MDT	F1	Scotts Bluff	0.5	50	$20,000
June 27	5:51 PM MDT	F0	Scotts Bluff	0.2	30
June 27	5:55 PM MDT	F0	Morrill	0.1	40
June 27	8:30 PM MDT	F0	Keith	1.0	50
June 27	10:52 PM MDT	F0	Deuel	1.0	50

June 29 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 29	3:10 PM MDT	F0	Cherry	1.0	50
June 29	3:35 PM MDT	F0	Cherry	1.0	50
June 29	3:45 PM MDT	F0	Cherry	1.0	50
June 29	3:50 PM MDT	F0	Cherry	2.0	50	$10,000
June 29	7:15 PM CDT	F0	Custer	1.0	50

June 30 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 30	2:55 PM CDT	F0	Wayne	0.0	10
June 30	5:05 PM MDT	F0	Box Butte	0.1	0

July 2 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 2	6:47 PM MDT	F1	Perkins	14.0	400		1	$700,000
July 2	9:35 PM CDT	F0	Custer	1.0	100			$20,000

July 19 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 19	4:30 PM MDT	F0	Garden	1.0	50
July 19	5:50 PM MDT	F1	Keith	6.0	300			$500,000

August 17 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
August 17	2:50 PM MDT	F0	Garden	1.0	100
August 17	2:55 PM MDT	F0	Garden	1.0	100
August 17	3:02 PM MDT	F0	Garden	1.0	100
August 17	3:11 PM MDT	F0	Deuel	1.0	100

September 1 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 1	6:40 PM MDT	F0	Cheyenne	0.2	30

September 2 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 2	4:30 PM MDT	F0	Banner	0.1	30

September 3 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 3	6:31 PM MDT	F0	Scotts Bluff	0.2	30
September 3	6:44 PM MDT	F0	Sioux	0.3	30

September 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 11	4:05 PM CDT	F0	Gosper	1.5	20

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.