April Tornadoes 1950-2010

April Tornadoes
South Central Nebraska and North Central Kansas

Data from January, 1950 - December, 2010
(View our 'Main Tornado Page' for maps for each month of the year, including statewide maps of Nebraska and Kansas.)

Notes about the data: All data from 1950-2009 was collected and assimilated into GIS format by the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, OK. This data can be found at https://spc.noaa.gov/gis/svrgis/ The data for the year 2010 was collected and assimilated into GIS by the National Weather Service office in Hastings, NE. The Fujita Scale (F-Scale) rating began in 1971, and the Enhanced Fujita Scale (EF-Scale) began February 1, 2007; Tornadoes prior to 1971 were later assigned an F-scale rating based on damage accounts and records. The tornado descriptions are primarily based on information in StormData and from the National Climatic Data Center, and is supplemented by information in 'Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991,' by Thomas P. Grazulis. The maps below illustrate the tornado touchdown points and tornado tracks. The tornado rating is based on the highest rating given the tornado along its path and is not necessarily at its highest rating at the initial touchdown point. For example, a track and tornado touchdown point with an EF3 rating may have started as an EF0 at the touchdown point and grew in intensity towards the middle or end of the track. The touchdown point represented on the map is the center of the triangle, not at the base (point) of the triangle. Tornado tracks are illustrated by the start and end points of the tornado, which on the map appear linear, versus an actual path the tornado may have taken along its lifespan. Not all tornadoes have tracks due to the length of the track. If the track length was incredibly small (For example, a brief touchdown or less than a few miles long), it was not plotted.

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Tornado Descriptions EF3 or Greater

F4/EF4:
-April 25, 1957
Fillmore County. A tornado set down and moved east northeast from two miles north of Geneva, NE to two miles north of Pleasant Dale, NE (Seward County). About 49 homes were destroyed and 99 more were damaged, mostly at Milford. Two homes were leveled, and 17 farms were damaged. An elderly man was killed in Seward County. Debris from Milford was carried 40 miles to the northeast, falling at Wahoo, NE.
F3/EF3:
-April 11, 1991
Rooks County. A strong tornado had a six mile path from 6 miles west of Stockton, KS to 6 miles north of Stockton, KS. The tornado destroyed three farm homes, and one woman was injured when the tornado blew her home off of the foundation and then tossed a pickup truck into the basement. Another vehicle was found 75 yards away from its original position.
-April 25, 1984
Howard County. A tornado touched down 0.5 mile southwest of Saint Paul, NE and moved north northeast for 8 miles through the north central portions of town and then lifted 5.5 miles north northeast of Saint Paul, NE. At lease 2 homes were completely destroyed and 67 were damaged. Six farm houses and 23 farm buildings were damaged, and 48 head of livestock were lost. Sixteen buildings on the county fair grounds were also destroyed.
-April 20, 1974
Nuckolls County. A tornado moved from four miles southwest of Ruskin, NE, passing just northwest of town, then passing three miles north of Carlton, NE. The tornado lifted southwest of Strang. A half dozen barns were destroyed and at least 16 hogs were killed. A food lot was damaged west of Ruskin.
-April 25, 1957
Clay County. A tornado moved east northeast from 8 miles west of Edgar, NE passing three miles west of Geneva, to two miles east of Exeter, NE. A half dozen farms lost barns and over 20 farms had some damage.