EF0 tornado in Seward County, Nebraska

A brief tornado touchdown was observed by spotters and relayed by the communication center in Seward county. The tornado touched down in open country northeast of Beaver Crossing. According to The Milford Times, a dairy farm north of Beaver Crossing sustained damage when a hay shed was lifted up and flipped onto another shed, but it was unclear whether the damage was due to the tornado or from high winds that spread across the county later in the evening in advance of thunderstorms to the south. This brief tornado was from the same super-cell thunderstorm that spawned several larger tornadoes along Interstate 80 from Kearney through Aurora earlier that night.

A warm front lifted north across the region during the afternoon and evening of May 29th followed by a weak cool front passage later that night. As the warm front passed, temperatures warmed into the lower to mid 80s and dewpoint temperatures climbed into the 65 to 70 degree range. The whole system was aided by an intense upper level low pressure area that moved from the eastern Rockies into the northern plains. The combination of the high instability in place, the 2 fronts and the upper level disturbance created conditions that were favorable not only for severe thunderstorms, a few of which were supercells that produced tornadoes, but also areas of very heavy rainfall that produced flash flooding that night and river and stream flooding that lasted a day or two later.