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Tornado in Kimball County, Nebraska

Tornado May 30, 2026 · Kimball County, Nebraska

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Not rated

0.5 mi

Path length

10 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 yards (0.01 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.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Kimball County EM reported an ongoing tornado with a ground circulation of dust. This was originally reported as debris, but later an Emergency Manager confirmed no damage. Therefore, this tornado was rated an EF-U.

The wider storm

Several slow-moving thunderstorms developed across the southern Nebraska Panhandle and northern Nebraska Panhandle, bringing hail, tornadoes, and torrential rain fall with flooding occuring in Kimball and Dawes Counties. No verification occurred in southeast Wyoming.

Began near Bushnell (41.0900, -103.8600).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EFU Kimball County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1331819. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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