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2001 tornadoes in Nebraska

62 tornadoes touched down in Nebraska in 2001, 47 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody. 1 were rated F4 or EF4 and above.

2000 2002 The whole country in 2001

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 2001

April 6 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 6	11:20 PM CDT	F1	Custer	1.0	100			$100,000
April 6	12:47 AM CDT	F1	Holt	1.0	100			$10,000

April 11 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 11	1:12 AM CDT	F0	Webster	3.0	25		$1,000
April 11	1:39 AM CDT	F1	Nuckolls	12.0	300		$40,000
April 11	1:49 AM CDT	F1	Thayer	1.0	75	1	$30,000
April 11	2:30 AM CDT	F1	Gage	1.0	40		$150,000
April 11	2:40 AM CDT	F2	Gage	2.0	50	2	$400,000
April 11	12:15 PM CDT	F0	Sarpy	0.1	30		$10,000

April 20 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 20	7:30 PM CDT	F0	Dixon	0.1	50
April 20	7:50 PM CDT	F0	Adams	0.1	10
April 20	8:15 PM CDT	F0	Nuckolls	0.5	50	$50,000
April 20	8:16 PM CDT	F0	Cedar	0.2	30

April 22 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 22	7:30 PM CDT	F0	Saunders	0.2	30			$10,000
April 22	7:57 PM CDT	F1	Washington	5.0	100		1	$600,000

May 4 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 4	5:45 PM CDT	F0	Richardson	0.1	40
May 4	6:15 PM CDT	F0	Johnson	0.1	40
May 4	6:48 PM CDT	F0	Nemaha	0.1	40
May 4	7:43 PM CDT	F0	Johnson	0.1	40

May 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 9	8:39 PM CDT	F0	Merrick	1.0	50

May 31 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 31	9:05 PM CDT	F0	Cedar	0.5	40

June 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 9	10:01 PM CDT	F0	McPherson	5.0	880			$3,000

June 12 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 12	6:13 PM MDT	F0	Dawes	0.2	25
June 12	8:46 PM MDT	F0	Sheridan	2.0	440			$10,000

June 13 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
June 13	6:51 PM CDT	F0	Cuming	0.5	30
June 13	7:45 PM CDT	F4	Seward	8.0	400	2	$1.0 million
June 13	8:42 PM CDT	F0	Lancaster	0.1	30
June 13	8:55 PM CDT	F0	Saunders	0.1	30
June 13	9:05 PM CDT	F1	Thayer	3.0	150		$500,000
June 13	9:25 PM CDT	F0	Furnas	0.5	30		$10,000
June 13	9:25 PM CDT	F0	Thayer	0.5	20
June 13	9:31 PM CDT	F0	Fillmore	0.2	20
June 13	10:45 PM CDT	F0	Thayer	3.0	50

June 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 18	7:36 PM CDT	F0	Burt	0.1	20

June 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 29	12:57 PM MDT	F0	Garden	1.0	110

July 1 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 1	5:23 PM MDT	F0	Cheyenne	0.1	20

July 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 8	4:35 PM CDT	F0	Cedar	0.1	20

July 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 9	9:03 AM CDT	F0	Holt	1.0	5

July 16 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
July 16	5:45 PM CDT	F0	Holt	1.0	20	$30,000
July 16	7:15 PM CDT	F0	Antelope	3.0	40
July 16	8:50 PM CDT	F0	Antelope	0.2	25
July 16	9:40 PM CDT	F1	Madison	0.5	30	$70,000

July 17 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
July 17	7:12 PM CDT	F0	Loup	1.0	20
July 17	7:14 PM CDT	F0	Holt	3.0	1
July 17	7:20 PM CDT	F0	Loup	5.0	50	$50,000
July 17	7:55 PM CDT	F0	Garfield	1.0	20

July 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 18	6:58 PM CDT	F1	Thayer	2.0	40			$50,000

July 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 25	7:30 PM MDT	F0	Cherry	5.0	40			$120,000

August 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 17	5:45 PM CDT	F2	Dakota	1.5	400		3	$3.0 million

September 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 7	7:03 PM CDT	F1	Gage	3.0	40			$60,000

September 22 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 22	7:07 PM CDT	F0	Clay	3.0	150			$50,000
September 22	7:42 PM CDT	F3	Clay	10.0	1,250			$1.3 million

October 9 11 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 9	5:08 PM CDT	F0	Greeley	7.0	100	$60,000
October 9	5:12 PM CDT	F1	Hamilton	4.0	200	$50,000
October 9	5:17 PM CDT	F2	Merrick	5.0	350	$380,000
October 9	5:30 PM CDT	F0	Hamilton	3.5	100	$10,000
October 9	5:32 PM CDT	F0	Nance	0.1	25
October 9	5:35 PM CDT	F1	Hamilton	12.0	400	$400,000
October 9	5:50 PM CDT	F3	Hamilton	18.0	1,500	$1.8 million
October 9	5:55 PM CDT	F0	Nance	0.1	50	$10,000
October 9	6:25 PM CDT	F1	Polk	5.0	400	$100,000
October 9	6:54 PM CDT	F0	Platte	0.3	30
October 9	7:00 PM CDT	F0	Loup	0.5	50	$10,000

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.