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2011 tornadoes in Nebraska

55 tornadoes touched down in Nebraska in 2011, 31 percent above 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 2011

March 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 22	4:40 PM CDT	EF1	Burt	2.4	75			$1.1 million

May 9 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 9	6:35 PM MDT	EF0	Sioux	0.0	20
May 9	7:10 PM MDT	EF0	Sioux	0.0	20

May 11 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 11	1:40 PM CDT	EF0	Adams	0.1	25	$25,000
May 11	2:50 PM CDT	EF1	Hamilton	2.3	200	$150,000
May 11	3:00 PM CDT	EF1	Polk	2.3	75	$100,000

May 12 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 12	4:46 PM CDT	EF0	Hamilton	0.8	75
May 12	5:33 PM CDT	EF0	Polk	0.7	30
May 12	5:36 PM CDT	EF0	Polk	1.0	30

May 30 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 30	4:20 PM CDT	EF0	Rock	0.0	20
May 30	4:47 PM CDT	EF0	Blaine	0.0	20
May 30	5:05 PM CDT	EF0	Holt	0.0	20
May 30	6:52 PM CDT	EF0	Holt	0.0	20
May 30	7:34 PM CDT	EF0	Dawson	0.4	25

June 1 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 1	6:22 PM CDT	EF0	Dawson	0.1	15

June 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 13	5:31 PM MDT	EF0	Cherry	0.7	50

June 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 14	8:03 PM CDT	EF0	Merrick	0.5	25

June 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 17	6:50 PM CDT	EF0	Dodge	3.0	50

June 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 18	2:00 PM MDT	EF0	Scotts Bluff	0.0	25

June 19 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 19	5:44 PM MDT	EF0	Dundy	1.5	50	$35,000
June 19	6:01 PM MDT	EF0	Dundy	1.9	50
June 19	8:20 PM CDT	EF0	Red Willow	2.5	75

June 20 14 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
June 20	3:00 PM CDT	EF1	Harlan	12.5	100		$250,000
June 20	3:35 PM CDT	EF0	Phelps	4.8	300		$750,000
June 20	3:51 PM CDT	EF2	Buffalo	4.0	440	1	$750,000
June 20	4:09 PM CDT	EF3	Buffalo	10.0	1,320		$6.0 million
June 20	4:35 PM CDT	EF0	Buffalo	3.6	50
June 20	4:46 PM CDT	EF2	Sherman	2.5	200		$100,000
June 20	5:05 PM CDT	EF0	Howard	0.1	50		$80,000
June 20	5:25 PM CDT	EF2	Hamilton	9.4	440		$2.5 million
June 20	5:35 PM CDT	EF1	Valley	1.0	100		$50,000
June 20	5:40 PM CDT	EF2	York	15.3	440		$3.5 million
June 20	6:02 PM CDT	EF3	Polk	9.5	880		$4.0 million
June 20	7:27 PM CDT	EF1	Pierce	12.0	400
June 20	8:00 PM CDT	EF1	Dodge	6.5	700		$280,000
June 20	8:09 PM CDT	EF1	Washington	7.3	850

June 25 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Width (yd)
June 25	6:52 PM MDT	EF0	Kimball	20
June 25	7:28 PM MDT	EF0	Cheyenne	20
June 25	7:53 PM MDT	EF0	Cheyenne	20

July 13 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 13	8:43 PM CDT	EF0	Franklin	0.1	25
July 13	9:04 PM CDT	EF0	Franklin	0.1	25

July 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 14	5:10 PM MDT	EF0	Banner	0.1	20

August 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 10	4:00 PM MDT	EF0	Kimball	1.1	50

August 11 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
August 11	6:49 PM MDT	EF0	Cherry	0.0	20
August 11	7:58 PM CDT	EF0	Brown	0.0	20
August 11	7:00 PM MDT	EF1	Cherry	1.4	75	$3,000
August 11	7:05 PM MDT	EF3	Cherry	0.5	900	$15,000
August 11	8:22 PM CDT	EF0	Brown	0.0	20
August 11	8:54 PM CDT	EF0	Brown	3.6	50	$2,000
August 11	9:53 PM CDT	EF0	Thomas	0.1	50	$11,000

August 18 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
August 18	5:23 PM CDT	EF0	Holt	0.0	20
August 18	5:46 PM CDT	EF0	Antelope	1.2	100
August 18	5:48 PM CDT	EF0	Holt	0.4	50
August 18	6:40 PM MDT	EF0	Cherry	0.0	20

August 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 29	5:10 PM MDT	EF0	Dawes	0.3	25

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.