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NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database

Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Falls City, NE

Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.

No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Falls City, Nebraska since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 99 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 5 of them rated EF3 or stronger.

Hurricanes
0

within 75 mi, since 1851

Tropical storms
0

below hurricane strength

Tornadoes
99

within 25 mi, since 1950

EF3 or stronger
5

1 deaths in all

Tornadoes within 25 miles of Falls City

By decade

  • 2020s7
  • 2010s13(2 EF3+)
  • 2000s13
  • 1990s28
  • 1980s7
  • 1970s4
  • 1960s16(1 EF3+)
  • 1950s11(2 EF3+)
Strongest tornadoes near Falls City, Nebraska
DateRatingDistancePathKilled / injured
Apr 28, 1963F325 mi4.9 mi1 / 8
May 21, 2019EF317 mi5.9 mi0 / 0
Jun 3, 2014EF322 mi6.33 mi0 / 2
May 18, 1959F319 mi0.5 mi0 / 0
May 5, 1950F317 mi17.3 mi0 / 12
May 12, 2023EF210 mi1.48 mi0 / 0
Jun 5, 2008EF24 mi28.89 mi0 / 0
Jun 4, 2005F223 mi3 mi0 / 0
Jun 13, 1998F217 mi1 mi0 / 0
May 8, 1995F224 mi1.5 mi0 / 0
May 6, 1993F220 mi8 mi0 / 0
May 6, 1993F220 mi23 mi0 / 0

The strongest 12 of 99, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.

How to read this page

A storm is listed when the centre of its track passed within 75 miles of Falls City while it was at least a tropical storm, which is the reach of damaging wind and rain for a typical hurricane. Being on the list does not mean the city took a direct hit; the "closest" column says how near the centre came. Tornadoes are counted when any part of the path came within 25 miles.

Tornado records before the 1990s are thinner, because weak tornadoes in open country often went unreported before Doppler radar and mobile phones. A rise in the decade counts is mostly better reporting, not a change in the weather.

Tracks come from the National Hurricane Center's HURDAT2 database, tornadoes from the Storm Prediction Center's database. Both are the official federal records and both are revised as old storms are re-analysed.

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