EF1 tornado in Burt County, Nebraska

A NWS storm survey team assessed that a tornado touched down around 5 miles south-southwest of Craig and lifted about 4 miles south-southwest of town causing damage up to weak EF1 intensity. An outbuilding and large storage bins were damaged, blown over or completely destroyed. A storage shed garage door was also blown out. Damage to the bins alone was estimated at close to $1 million. Telephone poles were bent, two center pivots were flipped and a tree was topped along the path which was estimated at close to 2.5 miles long and around 75 yards wide.

A strong upper level trough and associated cold front pushed across the region during the afternoon and evening of March 22. The upper level system caused low pressure to deepen over eastern Nebraska/northeast Kansas with a warm front extending northeast from the low into east central Nebraska and southwest Iowa. By mid afternoon, ahead of the cold front and south of the warm front, temperatures climbed into the upper 70s to lower 80s and dew point temperatures reached the upper 50s. The instability and shear near the low and warm front created a favorable environment for supercell development, a few of which produced damaging hail and at least 3 tornadoes in the area.