Tornadoes · United States · Nebraska

2024 tornadoes in Nebraska

99 tornadoes touched down in Nebraska in 2024, 135 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody. 1 were rated F4 or EF4 and above.

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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 2024

April 16 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
April 16	2:28 AM CDT	EF0	Webster	0.8	30
April 16	11:35 AM CDT	EF0	Platte	8.4	50
April 16	12:37 PM CDT	EF0	Platte	2.9	30
April 16	1:18 PM CDT	EF0	Colfax	1.1	30
April 16	1:39 PM CDT	EF0	Colfax	5.2	40

April 26 19 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 26	12:16 PM CDT	EF1	Sherman	4.7	175		$140,000
April 26	12:32 PM CDT	EF1	Sherman	5.7	100		$200,000
April 26	12:52 PM CDT	EF0	Howard	2.3	50		$200,000
April 26	12:58 PM CDT	EF3	Howard	9.3	600		$3.5 million
April 26	1:32 PM CDT	EF2	Howard	9.2	880		$800,000
April 26	2:04 PM CDT	EF2	Greeley	26.7	500		$25,000
April 26	2:51 PM CDT	EF1	Butler	8.1	200
April 26	2:52 PM CDT	EF3	Lincoln tornado	5.3	700	3
April 26	2:57 PM CDT	EF1	Lancaster	3.0	150
April 26	3:03 PM CDT	EF0	Lancaster	1.9	50
April 26	3:06 PM CDT	Unrated	Butler	0.7	30
April 26	3:12 PM CDT	EF1	Saunders	3.8	50
April 26	3:27 PM CDT	Unrated	Boone	1.0	50
April 26	3:30 PM CDT	EF4	Elkhorn tornado	31.9	1,900	4
April 26	3:42 PM CDT	Unrated	Boone	2.0	100
April 26	4:07 PM CDT	EF1	Platte	4.8	100
April 26	5:10 PM CDT	Unrated	Richardson	0.0	1
April 26	5:16 PM CDT	EF1	Stanton	0.7	100
April 26	5:45 PM CDT	Unrated	Richardson	0.0	1

May 3 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 3	8:53 PM CDT	EF1	Phelps	0.7	50	$40,000
May 3	9:08 PM CDT	EF1	Phelps	5.3	850	$500,000
May 3	9:09 PM CDT	EF0	Harlan	7.1	500	$750,000
May 3	9:11 PM CDT	EF1	Phelps	1.3	250	$150,000
May 3	10:51 PM CDT	EF0	Webster	5.8	80	$100,000

May 6 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 6	1:53 PM CDT	EF0	Lincoln	0.9	10
May 6	4:19 PM CDT	EF0	Webster	7.0	40	$20,000
May 6	6:40 PM CDT	Unrated	Custer	0.1	1
May 6	7:07 PM CDT	EF0	Gage	1.0	30
May 6	7:16 PM CDT	EF0	Gage	0.2	20

May 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 12	5:42 PM CDT	Unrated	Howard	2.3	35

May 21 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 21	4:54 AM CDT	EF0	Polk	4.1	75	$1.0 million
May 21	5:14 AM CDT	EF0	Colfax	0.5	50
May 21	5:23 AM CDT	EF0	Butler	0.6	50
May 21	5:27 AM CDT	EF0	Butler	2.6	50
May 21	5:45 AM CDT	EF0	Saunders	0.4	50
May 21	12:52 PM CDT	EF0	Saunders	0.2	50

May 23 17 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 23	3:36 PM MDT	EF1	Keith	2.0	200	$450,000
May 23	4:15 PM MDT	Unrated	Garden	0.0	50
May 23	5:12 PM MDT	Unrated	Keith	0.1	25
May 23	5:29 PM MDT	EF1	Keith	5.2	430	$600,000
May 23	5:36 PM MDT	EF1	Keith	0.1	25	$50,000
May 23	5:37 PM MDT	EF1	Keith	0.3	50	$5,000
May 23	5:39 PM MDT	EF2	Keith	0.3	200	$3.5 million
May 23	5:44 PM MDT	EF0	Keith	0.1	25	$20,000
May 23	6:17 PM MDT	Unrated	Keith	6.4	25
May 23	8:25 PM CDT	Unrated	Hayes	0.0	25
May 23	9:02 PM CDT	EF1	Hitchcock	0.3	80
May 23	9:30 PM CDT	EF0	Red Willow	0.4	28	$1,000
May 23	11:30 PM CDT	EF1	Phelps	1.7	100	$200,000
May 23	11:51 PM CDT	EF0	Kearney	4.3	75	$75,000
May 23	12:00 AM CDT	EF0	Kearney	8.4	60	$350,000
May 23	12:08 AM CDT	EF1	Howard	7.0	95	$75,000
May 23	12:26 AM CDT	EF1	Adams	2.5	80	$400,000

May 24 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 24	1:08 AM CDT	EF1	Platte	11.8	700
May 24	1:13 AM CDT	EF1	Platte	1.3	50
May 24	1:30 AM CDT	EF1	Colfax	4.8	400
May 24	1:43 AM CDT	EF0	Seward	0.0	20
May 24	1:50 AM CDT	EF0	Dodge	1.1	75
May 24	2:03 AM CDT	EF0	Saunders	0.1	20
May 24	2:12 AM CDT	EF0	Saunders	0.1	60
May 24	2:18 AM CDT	EF0	Washington	3.4	60
May 24	2:18 AM CDT	EF0	Washington	1.8	60
May 24	2:25 AM CDT	EF0	Sarpy	0.1	50
May 24	2:32 AM CDT	EF0	Sarpy	0.5	60
May 24	2:35 AM CDT	EF0	Sarpy	3.7	300

June 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 7	5:19 PM CDT	EF2	Custer	1.7	750			$80,000

June 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 12	7:12 PM CDT	EF0	Burt	0.5	75

June 15 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 15	5:42 PM CDT	EF1	Madison	0.7	300
June 15	6:14 PM CDT	Unrated	Madison	0.0	10
June 15	6:37 PM CDT	EF0	Stanton	0.1	20
June 15	6:56 PM CDT	EF0	Stanton	1.1	25
June 15	6:57 PM CDT	EF0	Cuming	1.1	25
June 15	7:06 PM CDT	EF1	Stanton	2.1	50
June 15	7:07 PM CDT	Unrated	Johnson	0.4	20

June 20 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 20	3:29 PM MDT	EF1	Scotts Bluff	1.4	50
June 20	5:21 PM CDT	EF1	Brown	0.1	25	$15,000
June 20	5:47 PM CDT	EF1	Brown	0.1	25	$1,000

June 25 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries
June 25	6:11 PM CDT	EF0	Madison	1.8	50
June 25	6:51 PM CDT	Unrated	Madison	0.5	30
June 25	8:47 PM MDT	EF3	Grant	40.0	500	1

July 1 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
July 1	5:51 PM CDT	Unrated	Furnas	0.0	10
July 1	7:07 PM CDT	Unrated	Kearney	0.0	10
July 1	10:46 PM CDT	EF0	Saline	0.3	80
July 1	11:50 PM CDT	EF1	Lancaster	2.3	300

July 3 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 3	1:48 PM MDT	Unrated	Cheyenne	0.0	10
July 3	6:25 PM CDT	Unrated	Custer	0.0	10

July 6 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
July 6	3:48 PM CDT	EF1	Kearney	1.1	200	$500,000
July 6	4:03 PM CDT	EF1	Kearney	4.3	50	$750,000
July 6	4:36 PM CDT	EF0	Adams	2.4	50	$50,000
July 6	4:52 PM CDT	EF0	Adams	0.3	100	$100,000
July 6	5:32 PM CDT	EF1	Clay	1.9	400	$125,000

July 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 16	6:54 PM CDT	EF1	Custer	0.0	10			$10,000

July 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 30	8:57 PM CDT	Unrated	Brown	0.1	50

August 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 14	1:06 AM CDT	Unrated	Polk	0.0	15

Crossed into Nebraska

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

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 26	4:54 PM CDT	EF3	Douglas, IA to NE	19.1	550

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.