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Tornado in Butler County, Nebraska

Tornado April 7, 1978 · Butler County, Nebraska

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Not rated

8.0 mi

Whole path

33 yd

Path width

$5.0M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Polk County → Butler County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 33 yards (0.02 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

NOAA’s online database has no written narrative for tornadoes before 1996 — just the numbers above, transcribed from the original storm logs. Written accounts from this era do exist in NOAA’s monthly Storm Data publications (scanned, back to 1959).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10068570. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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