Tornadoes · United States · Nebraska

2025 tornadoes in Nebraska

43 tornadoes touched down in Nebraska in 2025, about the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2024 The whole country in 2025

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 2025

April 17 4 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
April 176:55 PM CDTEF3Douglas8.1170
April 177:14 PM CDTEF0Cass0.850
April 177:20 PM CDTUnratedCass1.310
April 177:36 PM CDTEF0Cass2.275

April 27 11 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
April 275:38 PM MDTUnratedGarden2.110
April 275:44 PM MDTUnratedGarden0.110
April 275:56 PM MDTEF2Grant19.12,250$750,000
April 277:04 PM MDTUnratedCherry1.210
April 277:12 PM MDTUnratedCherry5.510
April 277:42 PM MDTUnratedCherry0.010
April 277:50 PM MDTUnratedCherry0.010
April 278:53 PM MDTUnratedCherry4.910
April 279:17 PM MDTEF1Cherry6.610
April 279:27 PM MDTEF2Cherry0.020
April 279:27 PM MDTEF2Cherry11.4880

May 18 7 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
May 186:49 PM CDTEF0Hitchcock0.250$80,000
May 186:49 PM CDTEF3Hitchcock10.7250$575,000
May 187:04 PM CDTUnratedHitchcock0.550
May 187:35 PM CDTEF2Hayes17.81,000$1.5 million
May 186:54 PM MDTUnratedDundy0.150
May 1810:09 PM CDTEF0Fillmore3.130$100,000
May 1812:51 AM CDTUnratedHoward0.030

May 19 2 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
May 195:29 PM CDTEF1Dodge1.770
May 195:50 PM CDTUnratedPawnee2.150

June 13 3 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 137:04 PM MDTUnratedCheyenne0.110
June 137:10 PM MDTUnratedCheyenne0.110
June 137:24 PM MDTUnratedCheyenne0.110

June 16 2 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 167:04 PM CDTEF1Lincoln0.850
June 167:20 PM CDTEF2Lincoln3.150$140,000

June 17 2 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 172:15 PM MDTEF0Kimball0.110
June 175:40 PM MDTUnratedMorrill0.110

June 24 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 246:20 PM CDTUnratedMerrick0.020

July 6 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
July 66:12 PM MDTUnratedCheyenne0.150

July 15 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
July 153:18 PM MDTEF0Cherry0.820$10,000

July 18 3 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
July 188:24 PM CDTUnratedBrown0.010
July 188:38 PM CDTUnratedBrown0.010
July 189:20 PM CDTUnratedBrown0.010

July 20 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
July 207:15 PM MDTUnratedCherry0.010

July 23 2 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
July 234:11 PM CDTUnratedCuster0.010
July 235:15 PM CDTUnratedCuster0.010

July 27 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
July 276:33 PM MDTUnratedCherry0.010

August 3 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
August 34:33 PM CDTUnratedMcPherson0.010

August 10 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
August 102:49 AM CDTEF0Otoe2.410

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.