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Hitchcock County Nebraska

The bar chart below denotes the number of tornadoes that have occurred in Hitchcock County since 1950. The blue bars show the number of tornadoes that occurred in a given year. For example, four tornadoes occurred in 1958 and one tornado occurred in 1994. No tornadoes were reported between 1963 and 1974. More information on the tornadoes that have occurred can be found in the table at the bottom of this page.

The blue bars on the bar chart below show the number of tornadoes that occurred in Hitchcock County. The number of tornado days are shown in orange. A tornado day is defined as a day where a tornado occurred. Since 1950, thirteen tornadoes have occurred in May, as shown by the blue bar. The orange bar shows that there have been eleven days where a tornado has occurred in May. This means that multiple tornadoes were reported on at least one day.

The following table is a list of the tornadoes that have occurred in Hitchcock County. Length is the length of the tornado path measured in miles. The width of the tornado is measured in yards. Scale indicates the F or EF rating a tornado was assigned.

31 TORNADOES were reported in Hitchcock County, NE ... 01/01/1950 - 12/31/2024
Number	Location	Date	Time	Scale	Fatality	Injury	Length	Width
Pre-1950	HITCHCOCK	06/11/1928	19:30	F2	0	0	35	200
Pre-1950	HITCHCOCK	05/25/1932	15:00	F3	2	2	11	100
Pre-1950	HITCHCOCK	05/31/1935	16:30	F4	5	22	28	800
Number	Location	Date	Time	Scale	Fatality	Injury	Length	Width
1	HITCHCOCK	06/13/1954	16:45	F1	0	0	1.00	30
2	HITCHCOCK	04/19/1957	17:40	F1	0	0	0.10	30
3	HITCHCOCK	04/22/1957	13:30	F0	0	0	0.10	30
4	HITCHCOCK	06/11/1958	21:00	F1	0	0	0.10	30
5	HITCHCOCK	06/15/1958	19:00	F1	0	0	0.10	30
6	HITCHCOCK	07/18/1958	23:00	F1	0	0	0.10	30
7	HITCHCOCK	08/13/1958	17:45	F1	0	0	0.10	30
8	HITCHCOCK	05/18/1960	21:30	F0	0	0	0.10	30
9	HITCHCOCK	05/28/1962	16:30	F1	0	0	0.10	30
10	HITCHCOCK	06/17/1975	23:00	F1	0	0	5.90	200
11	HITCHCOCK	05/20/1977	13:45	F1	0	0	0.10	20
12	HITCHCOCK	05/26/1978	20:10	F1	0	0	2.00	10
13	HITCHCOCK	05/26/1978	20:35	F0	0	0	0.10	30
14	HITCHCOCK	05/31/1984	17:05	F0	0	0	0.10	20
15	HITCHCOCK	05/29/1985	19:25	F1	0	0	0.50	30
16	HITCHCOCK	05/29/1985	19:43	F1	0	0	0.50	30
17	HITCHCOCK	07/02/1986	14:56	F0	0	0	0.10	10
18	HITCHCOCK	09/16/1986	17:00	F0	0	0	0.10	10
19	HITCHCOCK	07/14/1988	20:35	F0	0	0	0.50	20
20	HITCHCOCK	06/24/1989	15:20	F1	0	0	0.20	40
21	HITCHCOCK	06/01/1990	21:30	F1	0	0	0.50	50
22	HITCHCOCK	06/15/1990	18:00	F4	0	1	28.00	1500
23	Trenton	09/06/1994	19:51	F0	0	0	0.10	20
24	Trenton	05/22/1999	18:02	F0	0	0	0.20	20
25	Trenton	05/11/2005	14:50	F0	0	0	0.30	25
26	Trenton	04/12/2012	18:45	F0	0	0	0.25	10
27	Palisade	09/19/2018	17:20	F0	0	0	0.01	200
28	Culbertson	05/17/2019	16:40	EFU	0	0	0.25	75
29	Trenton	03/14/2021	13:37	EFU	0	0	0.42	50
30	Palisade	5/26/2021	16:23	EFU	0	0	1.79	100
31	0.4 SSE Trenton	05/26/2024	20:02	F1	0	0	0.33	80
	Totals				0	1


Total Tornado	EFU	F0	F1	F2	F3	F4	F5
	3	12	15	0	0	1	0

Updated: Jan 2025

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