Tornado Forecast May 31 2014

After many days of uncertainty as to exactly when and where, it now appears that a substantial tornado threat will develop in southeast Nebraska on Tuesday, June 3rd:

Nebraska Tornadoes and Snow

The same storm which produced tornadoes in eastern Nebraska, also produced heavy snow in western Nebraska:

5" of snow fell at Scottsbluff (2.7 WNW), 1" fell in northwest Kansas (Kanorado), and 43" fell in Wyoming (Encampment 19 WSW).

Here is a radar review from the Hastings and Omaha Radar sites. York received 7.07" of rain from these storms and from some earlier that day.


We followed the main supercell from south of York to slightly East of Omaha. Here is some of what we saw

A huge inflow band seen from Rd 4, 1 mile west of McCool, or 9 miles south of York, NE at 4:30 PM CDT:

There was flying debris with an intense RFD near Cordova. This was on Route 76A between Cordova, NE and Highway US 6 from 5:05-5:08 PM CDT. A funnel may be visible at 1:33.

It became a large high-precipitation supercell by the time it passed near Linlocln. This was shot from near Omaha along I-680 at 72nd street from 7:25-7:29 PM CDT:

Now we are on I-680 just west of where it joins I-80 in Iowa or 3 miles north of Neola, IA at 8:02 PM CDT: