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2016 tornadoes in Nebraska

45 tornadoes touched down in Nebraska in 2016, about the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2015 2017 The whole country in 2016

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 2016

April 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 24	6:03 PM CDT	EF1	Nuckolls	2.4	300			$4,000

April 27 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
April 27	2:10 PM CDT	EF0	Saunders	0.2	25
April 27	3:43 PM CDT	EF1	Douglas	0.7	50
April 27	3:52 PM CDT	EF0	Douglas	0.0	25
April 27	3:53 PM CDT	EF0	Douglas	0.2	25

May 8 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 8	6:25 PM CDT	EF0	Red Willow	0.3	25
May 8	7:29 PM CDT	EF0	Frontier	0.0	20

May 9 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 9	4:25 PM CDT	EF1	Lancaster	0.5	50
May 9	4:30 PM CDT	EF0	Buffalo	0.0	20
May 9	4:53 PM CDT	EF1	Lancaster	0.2	50
May 9	5:06 PM CDT	EF0	Clay	2.7	35	$75,000
May 9	5:49 PM CDT	EF2	Cass	3.3	100

May 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 10	3:25 PM CDT	EF0	Holt	0.2	20			$40,000

May 23 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 23	2:37 PM CDT	EF0	Adams	0.1	50

May 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 24	9:06 PM MDT	EF0	Chase	0.1	50			$50,000

May 30 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 30	2:05 PM MDT	EF0	Cheyenne	0.8	30
May 30	2:07 PM MDT	EF0	Cheyenne	0.5	30
May 30	2:20 PM MDT	EF0	Cheyenne	1.3	30

June 1 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 1	4:28 PM CDT	EF0	Adams	0.0	25			$2,000

June 28 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 28	6:32 PM MDT	EF0	Cherry	1.0	60
June 28	6:52 PM MDT	EF2	Cherry	1.0	150			$50,000

July 6 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
July 6	3:18 PM MDT	EF0	Sheridan	0.1	10
July 6	4:56 PM MDT	EF0	Sheridan	0.1	10
July 6	5:25 PM MDT	EF1	Cherry	4.6	75	$45,000
July 6	5:30 PM MDT	EF1	Cherry	0.5	50
July 6	7:03 PM CDT	EF0	McPherson	0.2	100
July 6	6:55 PM MDT	EF0	Arthur	0.1	10
July 6	8:08 PM CDT	EF0	McPherson	0.5	20

July 26 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 26	7:00 PM MDT	EF2	Sheridan	1.0	100			$25,000
July 26	7:39 PM MDT	EF0	Sheridan	0.2	20

July 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 29	5:22 PM MDT	EF0	Morrill	1.3	30

August 1 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 1	4:21 PM CDT	EF0	Saunders	0.0	15

August 11 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
August 11	3:31 PM CDT	EF0	Custer	0.0	10
August 11	3:33 PM CDT	EF0	Custer	0.0	10
August 11	8:52 PM CDT	EF0	Sherman	0.1	20

August 23 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 23	7:35 PM CDT	EF0	Washington	0.2	25
August 23	7:58 PM CDT	EF0	Washington	0.1	25

September 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 4	9:12 PM CDT	EF0	Logan	0.0	10

September 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 15	5:00 PM CDT	EF0	Washington	0.1	10

November 27 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
November 27	4:02 PM CST	EF0	Franklin	0.5	20
November 27	4:32 PM CST	EF1	Webster	3.8	60	$150,000
November 27	5:00 PM CST	EF0	Nuckolls	4.2	50	$3,000

December 25 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
December 25	11:50 AM CST	EF1	Phelps	2.8	200	$375,000
December 25	12:16 PM CST	EF0	Kearney	0.5	50	$5,000
December 25	12:24 PM CST	EF0	Buffalo	4.2	50	$225,000

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.