Tornado in Hitchcock County, Nebraska
Tornado May 18, 2025 · Hitchcock County, Nebraska
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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
High resolution satellite imagery showed the path of a satellite tornado that moved northwest across a field northwest of the intersection of 12th Ave. and Drive 350. No damage was reported from this tornado. This tornado occurred during the longer lived EF 3 tornado that moved north through the county.
The wider storm
Numerous severe storms moved into SW Nebraska from northeast Colorado and northwest Kansas and led to numerous reports of hail, wind and tornadoes. The strongest tornado was an EF 3 to the north of Stratton, Nebraska along with hail around 2 inches north of Stratton and in Benkelman as well. The EF 3 caused major damage to structures, electric poles, and farm machinery. The same thunderstorm also produced swaths of straight-line winds that also caused damage to electric poles, trees, and structures.
Began near Palisade Rich Arpt (40.2360, -101.2800).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1264154. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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