EF3 tornado in Grant County, Nebraska
Tornado June 25, 2024 · Grant County, Nebraska
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Grant County → Hooker County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 500 yards (0.28 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
Emergency manager reported a tornado half mile north of Whitman. The approximate starting point of the tornado was just south of the Cherry County line, several miles north of Whitman. EF-3 damage was observed at a farm house just south of Whitman.
The wider storm
Strong to severe thunderstorms developed along a boundary, draped across the central Sandhills during the late afternoon hours of June 25th. This activity became severe with golf ball sized hail. Later that evening, super cell thunderstorms in southern South Dakota, tracked south into western Cherry county. These severe storms produced 4 inch hail in western Cherry county. As the storm tracked into Grant county, it produced a long track, strong tornado, which tracked from near Whitman, to west of Tryon.
Began near Whitman (42.0900, -101.5400).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1216482. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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