Tornadoes · United States · Nebraska · 2014

EF1 tornado, Dixon, Nebraska, June 17, 2014

Name: EF1 tornado, Dixon, Nebraska, June 17, 2014
Start: 2014-06-18T03:45:00.000Z
End: 2014-06-18T03:52:00.000Z
Location: Dixon, Nebraska

This EF1 tornado ran 2.5 miles across Dixon County on June 17, 2014, touching down at 10:45 PM CDT and reaching 100 yards wide. It killed nobody, and did $20,000 of property damage.

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 mphthis tornado
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.

The record

Rating: EF1
Date: June 17, 2014
Touchdown: 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
Lifted: 10:52 PM CDT (03:52 UTC)
On the ground: 7 minutes
Path length: 2.5 miles (4.0 km)
Path width: 100 yards (91 m)
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $20,000
County: Dixon County
Touchdown point: 42.426, -97.018
Lift-off point: 42.445, -96.976
Record number: 1406172145-01

The damage survey

192 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS OAX, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF3. The highest wind the damage implies is 200 mph.

grain bin partially collapsed
overturned center pivot and crushed grain bin (move point)
Former location of Dehydration plant. There was a lot of cleanup going on at this location at survey time but deputies that were on site right away said it was all leveled by the tornado. There were also at leat 2 semi trucks there that were heavily damaged.
metal scoreboard uprooted and twisted. metal bleacher tossed 100 ft

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

What the Weather Service recorded

A tornado crossed into Dixon County in extreme northeast Nebraska from the west during the late evening of June 17th.

A tornado, crossing into Dixon County from the west, damaged several farm buildings, trees, electrical poles and lines, and crops.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

The warnings

21 minutes of warning. NWS OAX issued a tornado warning for this county at 03:24 UTC, 21 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 04:00 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 23:48 UTC and running to 04:13 UTC.

Issued (UTC)	Expired	Product	Office
23:48 UTC	04:13 UTC	Tornado Watch	OAX
00:38 UTC	01:15 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX
01:00 UTC	01:30 UTC	Tornado Warning	OAX
01:13 UTC	01:45 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX
01:20 UTC	02:00 UTC	Tornado Warning	OAX
01:40 UTC	02:15 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX
01:55 UTC	02:30 UTC	Tornado Warning	OAX
02:01 UTC	05:00 UTC	Flash Flood Warning	OAX
02:08 UTC	02:45 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX
02:26 UTC	03:00 UTC	Tornado Warning	OAX
02:40 UTC	03:15 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX
02:53 UTC	03:30 UTC	Tornado Warning	OAX
03:24 UTC	04:00 UTC	Tornado Warning	OAX

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The forecast that day

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk, with a 0.10 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 01:00 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the tornado touched down, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the tornado touched down at Jun 17, 6:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 6:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
615 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2014

.UPDATE...
ISSUED AT 610 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2014

SURFACE WARM FRONT AT 23Z EXTENDED ACROSS ANTELOPE/PIERCE/
WAYNE/THURSTON COUNTIES. HAVE SHAVED SOUTHWARD EXTENT OF
POPS...AS THREAT OF STORMS SHOULD BE LIMITED TO NEAR AND NORTH OF
THE SURFACE WARM FRONT. WHILE RISK OF STORMS IS SLIGHT...ANY
STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP COULD CARRY THREATS FOR MAINLY HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. LIMITED TIMING TO A WINDOW FROM AROUND 01-06Z AS
WELL...WITH BULK OF ACTIVITY LIKELY REMAINING OUTSIDE THE CWA.

&&

.SHORT TERM...(TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY)
ISSUED AT 312 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2014

WV IMAGERY THIS AFTN SHOWING INTENSE CLOSED LOW SPINNING OVER THE
PAC NW WITH A STRONG JET STREAK ROUNDING THE BASE OVER THE GREAT
BASIN. DOWNSTREAM...NEAR ZONAL FLOW WAS SITUATED OVER THE CNTRL/ERN
CONUS WITH A MINOR SHORTWAVE CROSSING THE GREAT LAKES REGION.
MEANWHILE IMAGERY CLEARLY SHOWING GOOD SUB TROPICAL MOISTURE FEED
PUSHING NEWD OVER THE SRN PLAINS.

AT THE SFC...UNORGANIZED LOW PRESSURE WAS SITUATED IN THE VICINITY
OF THE CNTRL HIGH PLAINS WITH A THERMAL BNDRY OVER NW IA/NRN NEB
RESULTING FROM DIFFERENTIAL HEATING ASSOC WITH TRANSITION ZONE
FROM CLOUDY/CLEAR SKIES.

MODELS INDICATE POTENTIAL REMAINS HIGH FOR ADDITIONAL ROUNDS OF PCPN
DURING THE FCST PD. BEGINNING TONIGHT...PAC NW CLOSED CIRCULATION
EJECTS EWD ACROSS INTO THE NRN ROCKIES WHILE SFC REFLECTION BECOMES
MORE ORGANIZED VIA DPVA. FOCUS FOR PCPN DEVELOPMENT LATER THIS
EVENING APPEARS TO BE ALONG AXIS OF STOUT BNDRY LYR THETA-E CONVG
ALONG THE SD/NEB BORDER/NW IA. NAM/GFS/ECM ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT
GREATEST RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE FOUND IN NW IA WHERE MOISTURE
POOLING WILL BE MOST PREVALENT. THEREFORE HAVE OPTED TO INCLUDE
POPS MAINLY OVER NRN/ERN SECTION OF THE CWA.

WED/WED NIGHT/THUR...LID STRENGTH INDEX/MLCIN/700MB TEMPS ALL
INDICATE CAPPING WILL BE TOUGH TO OVERCOME UNTIL EARLY EVENING.
HIRES ARW/NMM PROG TSTM DEVELOPMENT INITIALLY OVER CNTRL KS ALONG
LLVL THETA-E CONVG AXIS...THEN SPREADING INTO THE CWA OVERNIGHT.
PCPN WILL GET SHOVED GRADUALLY EWD ON THURSDAY IN RESPONSE TO
APPROACHING COLD FRONT.

ON FRIDAY...SEEMS TO BE AT LEAST A SMALL CHANCE FOR TSTMS ASSOC WITH
MOISTURE RETURN/WEAK WARM FRONT LIFTING THRU THE CNTRL PLAINS. GIVEN
LOW CONFIDENCE WILL OPT FOR COVERING THE CWA WITH TOKEN 20S.

.LONG TERM...(FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY)
ISSUED AT 312 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2014

MODELS IN RELATIVELY GOOD AGREEMENT LARGE SCALE FLOW WILL FOR THE
MOST PART BE NEAR ZONAL THRU THE EXT PDS WITH TSTM CHANCES BEING
DICTATED BY A SERIES OF FRONTAL PASSAGES. AS FOR SEVERE
POTENTIAL...COMPOSITE PARAMETERS INDICATE BEST CHANCES WILL BE
SAT AFTN/SUN AFTN.

&&

.AVIATION...(00Z TAFS FOR KOFK...KLNK AND KOMA.)
ISSUED AT 610 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2014

VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE TAF CYCLE. BELIEVE
SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN NORTH OF KOFK THIS EVENING...AND
HAVE KEPT ANY MENTION OUT OF THE TAF. SITES WILL KEEP WINDS AROUND
10-15KT OVERNIGHT...INCREASING DIURNALLY TOMORROW. SCATTERED MID-
LEVEL CEILINGS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND AGAIN TOMORROW AT ALL
SITES.

&&

.OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NE...NONE.
IA...NONE.
&&

UPDATE...MAYES
SHORT TERM...DEE
LONG TERM...DEE
AVIATION...MAYES

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 17, 5:38 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
538 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2014

NEZ011-012-016>018-181245-
KNOX-CEDAR-ANTELOPE-PIERCE-WAYNE-
538 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING IN FAR
NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. IF THEY DO DEVELOP...THESE STORMS MAY BECOME
SEVERE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WOULD BE THE PRIMARY RISKS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY EVENING AND WEDNESDAY
NIGHT. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP MAY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME
SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY RISKS.

CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT OR WEDNESDAY.

IAZ055-069-079-090-NEZ015-034-045-052-053-067-068-091-093-181245-
HARRISON-POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-FREMONT-THURSTON-BURT-WASHINGTON-
DOUGLAS-SARPY-CASS-OTOE-NEMAHA-RICHARDSON-
538 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST
IOWA...EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST
NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY

RIVER LEVELS WILL CONTINUE TO RISE ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER AND
SOME TRIBUTARIES...WITH LEVELS REACHING NEAR TO ABOVE FLOOD STAGE
BY TONIGHT OR WEDNESDAY IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY EVENING AND WEDNESDAY
NIGHT. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP MAY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME
SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY RISKS.

CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THURSDAY.

RIVER LEVELS ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER WILL CONTINUE TO RISE TO
AND REMAIN ABOVE FLOOD STAGE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT OR WEDNESDAY.

IAZ043-056-080-091-NEZ030>033-042>044-050-051-065-066-078-088>090-
092-181245-
MONONA-SHELBY-MONTGOMERY-PAGE-BOONE-MADISON-STANTON-CUMING-PLATTE-
COLFAX-DODGE-BUTLER-SAUNDERS-SEWARD-LANCASTER-SALINE-JEFFERSON-
GAGE-JOHNSON-PAWNEE-
538 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST
IOWA...WEST CENTRAL IOWA...EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...NORTHEAST
NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY EVENING AND WEDNESDAY
NIGHT. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP MAY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME
SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY RISKS.

CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT OR WEDNESDAY.

MAYES

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 17, 9:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
922 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0921 PM     TORNADO          5 N LAUREL              42.50N 97.09W
06/17/2014                   CEDAR              NE   NWS EMPLOYEE

            VERY LARGE STATIONARY WEDGE TORNADO. OBSERVED BY STORM
            DAMAGE SURVEY CREW.

&&

VDEWALD

Local storm report, Jun 17, 9:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
933 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0931 PM     TORNADO          2 NNE LAUREL            42.46N 97.08W
06/17/2014                   CEDAR              NE   NWS EMPLOYEE

            THIS IS A NEW TORNADO ON THE GROUND.

&&

VDEWALD

Local storm report, Jun 17, 9:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
935 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0935 PM     TORNADO          3 NE LAUREL             42.46N 97.05W
06/17/2014                   CEDAR              NE   STORM CHASER

&&

VDEWALD

Local storm report, Jun 17, 10:01 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
1001 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1000 PM     TORNADO          5 NNE LAUREL            42.50N 97.06W
06/17/2014                   CEDAR              NE   NWS EMPLOYEE

            TORNADO STILL ON GROUND. NEARLY STATIONARY.

&&

VDEWALD

Local storm report, Jun 17, 10:18 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
1018 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1016 PM     TORNADO          2 N LAUREL              42.46N 97.09W
06/17/2014                   CEDAR              NE   STORM CHASER

&&

VDEWALD

Local storm report, Jun 17, 10:35 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
1035 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0830 PM     TORNADO          1 NNW COLERIDGE         42.53N 97.21W
06/17/2014                   CEDAR              NE   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            2 FARMSTEADS AND ONE GRAINERY DESTROYED.

&&

VDEWALD

The air that afternoon

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Omaha, NE (KOAX), 00:00Z

3.8 hours before the tornado, 134 km from the path. June 18, 2014.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 4092 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 6297 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1440 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 14.4
0-3 km lapse rate: 6.6 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

Omaha, NE (KOAX), 12:00Z

8.2 hours after it, 134 km from the path. June 18, 2014.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

Hodograph

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2189 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -404 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 2884 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1081 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 364 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 327 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2
0-3 km lapse rate: 4.4 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 130 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 03:43 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

What was reported nearby

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

Time (UTC)	Report	Where	County	Remark
00:51 UTC	HAIL 0.5	Hartington	Cedar, NE
00:55 UTC	HAIL 1	1 Se Fordyce	Cedar, NE
01:02 UTC	TORNADO	2 S Hartington	Cedar, NE
01:12 UTC	TORNADO	4 Nne Coleridge	Cedar, NE	MULTIVORTEX TORNADO.
01:21 UTC	TORNADO	1 Nw Coleridge	Cedar, NE
01:26 UTC	TORNADO	Coleridge	Cedar, NE	LARGE WEDGE TORNADO.
01:30 UTC	TORNADO	1 Nnw Coleridge	Cedar, NE	2 FARMSTEADS AND ONE GRAINERY DESTROYED.
01:33 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Coleridge	Cedar, NE	LARGE TREE LIMB BROKE THROUGH WINDOW IN THE HOUSE. FLAG POLE BENT OVER 90 DEGREES.
01:52 UTC	TORNADO	5 Nw Laurel	Cedar, NE	RAIN WRAPPED.
02:08 UTC	TORNADO	5 N Laurel	Cedar, NE
02:13 UTC	TORNADO	4 N Laurel	Cedar, NE	LARGE TORNADO. POSSIBLE MULTIPLE VORTEX.
02:21 UTC	TORNADO	5 N Laurel	Cedar, NE	VERY LARGE STATIONARY WEDGE TORNADO. OBSERVED BY STORM DAMAGE SURVEY CREW.
02:31 UTC	TORNADO	2 Nne Laurel	Cedar, NE	THIS IS A NEW TORNADO ON THE GROUND.
02:35 UTC	TORNADO	3 Ne Laurel	Cedar, NE
03:00 UTC	TORNADO	5 Nne Laurel	Cedar, NE	TORNADO STILL ON GROUND. NEARLY STATIONARY.
03:16 UTC	TORNADO	2 N Laurel	Cedar, NE
03:50 UTC	TORNADO	2 N Dixon	Dixon, NE	THREE RESIDENCES DAMAGED AND POWER LINES DOWN. ROADS FLOODED
04:14 UTC	FLASH FLOOD	6 E Coleridge	Cedar, NE	COUNTY ROAD WITH WATER OVER IT EAST OF HWY 15.
04:14 UTC	FLASH FLOOD	6 S Hartington	Cedar, NE	WATER OVER HWY 57.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

This ground now

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The other tornadoes of June 17, 2014

19 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 17	4:40 AM CDT	EF1	Green, WI	6.8	641	$300,000
June 17	11:57 AM EDT	EF1	Iosco, MI	1.6	100	$140,000
June 17	2:27 PM MDT	EF3	Carter, MT	10.0	880
June 17	3:54 PM MDT	EF0	Garfield, MT	0.1	15
June 17	4:40 PM MDT	EF0	Cherry, NE	0.2	40
June 17	4:40 PM MDT	EF0	Cherry, NE	0.4	40
June 17	5:28 PM MDT	EF0	Cherry, NE	0.7	40	$60,000
June 17	6:00 PM MDT	EF0	Cherry, NE	0.7	40	$10,000
June 17	7:57 PM CDT	EF1	Cedar, NE	3.9	630	$10,000
June 17	8:09 PM CDT	EF3	Cedar, NE	4.0	2,059	$2.0 million
June 17	7:39 PM MDT	EF0	Cherry, NE	0.2	20
June 17	10:03 PM EDT	EF1	Oneida, NY	11.0	250
June 17	8:07 PM MDT	EF0	Hooker, NE	1.7	40
June 17	9:10 PM CDT	EF0	Cedar, NE	1.3	100
June 17	9:10 PM CDT	EF1	Cedar, NE	3.4	850	$25,000
June 17	9:28 PM CDT	EF2	Cedar, NE	0.9	200	$50,000
June 17	9:45 PM CDT	EF2	Cedar, NE	5.3	850	$250,000
June 17	10:44 PM CDT	EF2	Minnehaha, SD	3.4	400	$100,000
June 17	11:27 PM CDT	EF0	Lyon, IA	0.3	50

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.