Category Archives: Central Nebraska Weather Gallery
Gallery: Mid-June supercell over north central Nebraska
VALLEY CO. - A powerful supercell thunderstorm formed along a dryline during the early evening hours of Thursday, June 19. This storm would cause extensive damage to the west grandstands to the rodeo ...
Jun 23, 2025 The anvil of a supercell thunderstorm over Valley County during the evening of Thursday, June 19, (Brian Neben, Courtesy)
Gallery: Crepuscular Rays over central Nebraska
KEARNEY - Distant thunderstorms and the setting sun on Sunday, June 22 set the stage for an optical phenomenon to overspread central Nebraska during the sunset hour. Crepuscular rays, sometimes colloq...
Jun 23, 2025 Crepuscular rays appear over central Nebraska due to light of the setting sun passing through distant storm clouds, (Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today)
Gallery: Supercell, Lightning in Lincoln County, June 16
LINCOLN CO. - Severe weather impacted parts of southwest and central Nebraska during the evening of Monday, June 16. A supercell in Lincoln County produced a long-lived tornado in the Wallace-Wellflee...
Jun 17, 2025 Lightning in southern Lincoln County, (Brian Neben, Courtesy)
Gallery: Severe weather along the cold front in north central Nebraska
BROKEN BOW - Severe weather took place in central Nebraska during the evening hours of Monday, June 2. Heavy rainfall fell across north central Nebraska while Kearney was impacted by winds around 66 m...
Jun 04, 2025 The edge of a self cloud approaching Highway 183 south of Ansley in Custer County, (Brian Neben, Courtesy)
Gallery: Canadian wildfire smoke over central Nebraska
KEARNEY - Owning to a change in the upper-level winds, wildfire smoke from the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and Manitoba overspread Nebraska during the evening of Friday, May 30. While skies were...
May 31, 2025 Canadian wildfire smoke impacting the sunset on May 30, 2025, (Brian Neben, Courtesy)
Gallery: Late May Thunderstorms across, Buffalo, Phelps counties
KEARNEY - A marginal risk for severe storms led to widely scattered thunderstorms throughout the afternoon of Wednesday, May 21 across parts of south central Nebraska. Photos by Brian Neben, Courtesy
May 22, 2025 A rainbow appears behind a thunderstorm in Buffalo County, while another storm near Central City appears on the horizon, (Brian Neben, Courtesy)
Gallery: Severe Thunderstorm in Dawson-Buffalo Counties
ELM CREEK - After passing through the Sandhills and north central Nebraska, a severe thunderstorm moved through eastern Dawson and western Buffalo counties, becoming more outflow dominant as it did so...
Jul 17, 2024 The shelf cloud at the edge of the thunderstorm as it becomes outflow dominant in Buffalo County, (Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today)
Gallery: Tornado Warned Supercell near Elm Creek, Minden
KEARNEY - Severe weather once again occurred throughout central Nebraska during the afternoon and evening of Saturday, July 6. A tornado warned supercell would pass near Elm Creek and Minden, followed...
Jul 07, 2024 The tornado warned supercell as it approaches the community of Minden during the late afternoon of July 6, (Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today)
Gallery: South Central Nebraska Lightning Storm
KEARNEY - Views of a severe warned thunderstorm and lightning during the evening hours of Sunday, June 16. A handful of storms initiated along a warm front across south central Nebraska.
Jun 16, 2024 Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today
Gallery: Squall Line Thunderstorm Impacts Central Nebraska Sunday Evening
BUFFALO CO. - A severe thunderstorm in the form of a squall line passed through south central Nebraska during the early evening and overnight hours of Sunday, June 2.
Jun 02, 2024 A shelf cloud at the edge of the squall line appears as the storm complex nears Overton (Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today)