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2010 tornadoes in Nebraska

38 tornadoes touched down in Nebraska in 2010, 10 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

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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 2010

April 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 29	8:22 PM CDT	EF1	Jefferson	2.9	300			$650,000

May 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 16	3:14 PM MDT	EF0	Dundy	0.3	10

May 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 18	5:48 PM MDT	EF0	Kimball	0.3	25

May 22 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 22	7:45 PM MDT	EF0	Cherry	1.0	20			$42,000
May 22	9:30 PM CDT	EF2	Keya Paha	9.0	20			$120,000

May 24 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 24	11:34 AM MDT	EF0	Kimball	0.5	75
May 24	12:11 PM MDT	EF0	Scotts Bluff	0.3	50
May 24	12:16 PM MDT	EF0	Scotts Bluff	0.3	50
May 24	12:38 PM MDT	EF0	Kimball	0.3	100
May 24	2:11 PM MDT	EF0	Box Butte	0.3	50

June 1 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 1	2:58 PM CDT	EF0	Wayne	1.4	100
June 1	6:05 PM CDT	EF1	Cass	0.6	200			$4,000

June 3 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 3	6:30 PM CDT	EF0	Custer	0.1	10

June 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 6	8:31 PM MDT	EF0	Chase	2.0	20

June 7 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 7	6:20 PM MDT	EF0	Sioux	0.5	100
June 7	7:23 PM MDT	EF1	Scotts Bluff	19.0	100
June 7	7:24 PM MDT	EF0	Box Butte	2.0	100
June 7	7:25 PM MDT	EF0	Scotts Bluff	0.3	100
June 7	7:28 PM MDT	EF0	Scotts Bluff	0.3	100
June 7	7:54 PM MDT	EF1	Morrill	2.0	100	$60,000
June 7	8:28 PM MDT	EF0	Morrill	1.0	100

June 11 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 11	10:03 PM CDT	EF0	Gosper	0.1	20
June 11	12:00 AM CDT	EF0	Lincoln	0.1	10
June 11	12:15 AM CDT	EF0	Lincoln	0.1	10

June 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 13	6:33 PM CDT	EF1	Furnas	1.8	300

June 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 20	7:50 PM CDT	EF2	Nuckolls	1.5	1,300

June 22 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 22	4:42 PM MDT	EF0	Banner	0.5	30
June 22	5:06 PM MDT	EF0	Banner	0.5	30
June 22	5:18 PM MDT	EF0	Banner	0.5	30
June 22	6:20 PM MDT	EF0	Sheridan	0.0	10

June 25 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 25	5:00 PM MDT	EF0	Cherry	0.9	20
June 25	7:05 PM CDT	EF0	Thomas	1.0	20

July 3 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 3	4:40 PM MDT	EF0	Sheridan	0.1	25

July 4 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 4	5:09 PM MDT	EF0	Kimball	0.5	50
July 4	6:25 PM MDT	EF0	Kimball	0.5	30

July 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 6	5:06 PM MDT	EF0	Cheyenne	0.5	25

July 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 17	8:23 PM CDT	EF0	Lincoln	0.1	5

September 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 13	4:04 PM CDT	EF0	Jefferson	0.2	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.