Tornadoes · United States · Nebraska

2017 tornadoes in Nebraska

32 tornadoes touched down in Nebraska in 2017, 24 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2016 2018 The whole country in 2017

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.

  1. EF065 to 85 mph

    Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

  2. EF186 to 110 mph

    Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. EF4166 to 200 mph

    Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

  6. 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.

  7. 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 2017

April 9 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
April 98:51 PM CDTEF0Gage0.110

April 15 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
April 154:58 PM CDTEF0Otoe1.550

May 16 2 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
May 164:43 PM CDTEF0Fillmore1.835$3,000
May 165:36 PM MDTEF0Perkins0.120

May 17 2 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
May 171:24 AM CDTEF1Clay2.250
May 173:48 PM CDTEF1Cuming0.450

June 12 9 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 126:01 PM MDTEF1Kimball1.080
June 126:12 PM MDTUnratedBanner0.725
June 126:30 PM MDTEF1Banner4.2100$25,000
June 126:33 PM MDTUnratedDawes1.125
June 127:13 PM MDTEF1Morrill0.250
June 127:19 PM MDTEF2Morrill31.6300$3.5 million
June 128:30 PM MDTEF1Sheridan9.210$21,000
June 128:40 PM MDTEF1Sheridan9.210$21,000
June 1210:40 PM MDTEF1Sheridan9.210$21,000

June 16 8 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 164:47 PM CDTEF0Pierce0.525
June 165:32 PM CDTEF1Wayne2.1100$350,000
June 165:50 PM CDTEF0Madison4.525
June 167:10 PM CDTEF1Dodge1.450
June 168:05 PM CDTEF2Sarpy to IA14.0250
June 168:08 PM CDTEF1Sarpy to IA6.7300
June 168:40 PM CDTEF0Lancaster0.520
June 169:39 PM CDTEF0Gage0.940

June 29 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 295:45 PM CDTEF1Cedar14.4150

August 7 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
August 74:22 PM MDTEF0Chase0.110

August 15 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
August 156:10 PM MDTEF0Cheyenne6.850

August 19 5 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
August 197:40 PM CDTEF0Loup0.110
August 197:48 PM CDTEF1Loup2.3840$50,000
August 197:48 PM CDTEF1Loup0.7330$10,000
August 198:03 PM CDTEF0Loup0.110
August 198:14 PM CDTEF2Loup0.7540$100,000

October 2 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
October 211:42 PM CDTEF0Boone0.320

Crossed into Nebraska

Tornadoes that touched down in a neighboring state and ran into Nebraska. They are counted under the state they began in.

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 126:09 PM CDTEF2Goshen, WY to NE25.65002$603,000

Nearby

Every tornado in Nebraska since 1950Warnings in force in NebraskaThe 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.