Tornadoes · United States · Nebraska

2005 tornadoes in Nebraska

40 tornadoes touched down in Nebraska in 2005, about the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2004 2006 The whole country in 2005

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 2005

March 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 30	3:06 PM MST	F0	Scotts Bluff	0.1	50

April 18 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 18	6:22 PM CDT	F0	Fillmore	0.5	30
April 18	6:40 PM CDT	F0	York	0.1	10

April 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 19	6:30 PM MDT	F0	Cherry	0.3	20

May 7 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 7	4:56 PM CDT	F0	Phelps	9.0	60	$250,000
May 7	5:18 PM CDT	F0	Kearney	0.1	30
May 7	5:39 PM CDT	F0	Buffalo	0.1	30
May 7	6:00 PM CDT	F0	Buffalo	0.1	30
May 7	6:00 PM CDT	F0	Buffalo	1.5	45	$50,000
May 7	6:15 PM CDT	F0	Buffalo	9.0	90	$30,000
May 7	6:30 PM CDT	F0	Hall	0.5	30
May 7	7:35 PM CDT	F0	Nance	0.5	30

May 10 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 10	9:20 PM CDT	F0	Hamilton	0.1	30
May 10	9:41 PM CDT	F0	Polk	0.1	50

May 11 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 11	3:50 PM CDT	F0	Hitchcock	0.3	25
May 11	4:55 PM CDT	F1	Frontier	2.0	50	$50,000
May 11	5:15 PM MDT	F0	Dundy	0.3	25
May 11	5:34 PM MDT	F0	Dundy	0.3	25
May 11	10:05 PM CDT	F0	Hall	0.1	30	$120,000

May 17 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 17	4:06 PM CDT	F0	Lincoln	0.1	20
May 17	4:26 PM CDT	F0	Lincoln	0.1	20
May 17	6:15 PM CDT	F0	Dawson	1.0	30

June 4 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 4	12:30 PM MDT	F0	Keith	4.0	25
June 4	3:30 PM CDT	F0	McPherson	0.1	25
June 4	4:15 PM CDT	F0	McPherson	0.1	25

June 6 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 6	5:01 PM MDT	F0	Arthur	0.1	25
June 6	5:15 PM MDT	F1	Arthur	2.1	50	$10,000
June 6	6:15 PM CDT	F0	McPherson	0.1	25
June 6	5:37 PM MDT	F0	Hooker	0.1	25
June 6	5:52 PM MDT	F0	Hooker	0.1	25

June 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 15	3:50 PM MDT	F0	Cheyenne	0.0	30

June 27 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 27	3:41 PM MDT	F0	Scotts Bluff	0.3	50
June 27	3:49 PM MDT	F2	Banner	17.0	250	$300,000
June 27	5:10 PM MDT	F0	Cheyenne	17.0	250	$10,000
June 27	7:09 PM MDT	F0	Cheyenne	0.1	50

July 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 5	4:58 PM MDT	F0	Box Butte	0.1	40

September 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 6	7:53 PM CDT	F0	Brown	0.2	20

September 12 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 12	6:57 PM CDT	F0	Valley	0.2	15
September 12	7:06 PM CDT	F0	Valley	0.4	50

September 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 18	6:30 PM CDT	F0	Holt	0.1	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.