Tornadoes · United States · Nebraska

2007 tornadoes in Nebraska

47 tornadoes touched down in Nebraska in 2007, 12 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2006 2008 The whole country in 2007

The rating scale

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

EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 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.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 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 2007

March 24 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
March 24	5:35 PM MDT	EF0	Keith	0.1	10
March 24	5:45 PM MDT	EF0	Deuel	0.1	10
March 24	6:53 PM CDT	EF0	Hayes	0.1	20

March 28 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 28	6:12 PM MDT	EF0	Cherry	3.0	150	$250
March 28	7:05 PM MDT	EF0	Chase	0.1	20
March 28	7:05 PM MDT	EF1	Arthur	20.6	100
March 28	7:11 PM MDT	EF1	Chase	2.5	20	$15,000
March 28	7:12 PM MDT	EF0	Perkins	0.2	20
March 28	7:20 PM MDT	EF1	Perkins	2.3	30	$15,000
March 28	7:20 PM MDT	EF2	Perkins	15.9	900	$1.2 million
March 28	7:46 PM MDT	EF1	Grant	2.0	100	$500
March 28	8:00 PM MDT	EF0	Keith	0.1	20
March 28	8:11 PM MDT	EF1	Keith	0.7	20	$100,000
March 28	8:17 PM MDT	EF1	Dundy	12.0	440	$460,000
March 28	8:20 PM MDT	EF0	Keith	0.1	20	$5,000

March 31 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 31	2:35 PM CDT	EF1	Washington	1.0	440			$15,000

April 20 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 20	9:16 PM CDT	EF3	Frontier	15.7	440		2	$420,000
April 20	10:02 PM CDT	EF2	Dawson	18.9	1,320		9	$2.6 million

April 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 22	2:43 PM CDT	EF0	Pierce	0.5	100

April 23 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 23	11:15 PM MDT	EF0	Chase	0.5	20
April 23	11:16 PM MDT	EF0	Chase	0.3	20

May 5 13 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
May 5	12:23 PM CDT	EF1	Custer	20.6	150		$150,000
May 5	1:03 PM CDT	EF1	Custer	40.7	220		$40,000
May 5	2:05 PM CDT	EF1	Brown	14.3	220		$40,000
May 5	3:48 PM CDT	EF0	Knox	11.4	100		$10,000
May 5	3:57 PM CDT	EF1	Keya Paha	16.7	100	1	$100,000
May 5	4:58 PM CDT	EF1	Saline	18.3	400
May 5	5:15 PM CDT	EF0	Knox	1.5	200
May 5	5:17 PM CDT	EF0	Knox	3.0	100
May 5	5:24 PM CDT	EF0	Knox	5.3	150
May 5	5:28 PM CDT	EF1	Knox	8.9	440
May 5	5:43 PM CDT	EF2	Knox	5.5	500	3	$1.0 million
May 5	5:45 PM CDT	EF0	Knox	3.5	100
May 5	10:15 PM CDT	EF0	Boone	0.5	100

May 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 6	7:50 PM CDT	EF0	Jefferson	1.0	300

May 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 27	3:35 PM MDT	EF1	Cheyenne	0.1	30			$10,000

June 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 6	9:20 PM CDT	EF0	Custer	0.1	20

June 21 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 21	7:05 PM MDT	EF0	Cherry	0.1	20
June 21	7:15 PM MDT	EF1	Cherry	3.0	50			$75,000

July 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 12	5:15 PM CDT	EF0	Lincoln	0.1	20

July 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 13	7:18 PM CDT	EF0	Lincoln	0.1	20

August 3 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 3	6:02 PM MDT	EF0	Cherry	0.1	10
August 3	8:30 PM CDT	EF0	Wheeler	0.1	10

August 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 20	6:35 PM CDT	EF0	Colfax	5.3	100

August 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 22	5:10 PM CDT	EF0	Adams	1.5	25			$20,000

August 28 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 28	4:56 PM CDT	EF1	Dodge	4.5	500			$300,000

September 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 6	5:27 PM CDT	EF0	Dodge	3.2	50

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.