June 15, 2024 Tornadoes

Summary:

Based on chaser video as well as drone footage, this tornado developed 5.5 miles north of Clarkson, NE, and moved east-northeast. The tornado then produced EF-1 damage to a machine shed on a farmstead. The narrow tornado continued northeast another mile before lifting.

Summary:

This was a very slow-moving tornado that developed 7 miles south of Meadow Grove, destroying a metal hay shed and a cattle trailer.

Summary:

Documented from storm chaser video, this tornado developed just northeast of Pilger, north of Highway 275. It then traveled across a feedlot producing minor damage to a sun-shade. The tornado continued northeast before lifting without doing any further damage.

Summary:

Very brief tornado caused window damage to a home and several trees sustained damage.

Summary:

Photo evidence and eyewitness reports of a funnel cloud with a short-lived ground circulation and dust cloud. Brief tornado at this location.

Summary:

Two eyewitness reports, including photos, of a funnel cloud with a ground-level circulation. The tornado persisted for approximately a half mile.

Summary:

A likely microburst impacted the area near  Highway 41 and 619 Avenue east of St Mary. Several trees were uprooted with large limbs broken. A garage had siding blown off, and an unattached mobile home was badly damaged as it was displaced or rolled up against a tree. All damage was pointing toward the east-northeast, with a slightly divergent damage pattern, and a wider damage swath than a tornado. This damage pattern along with radar velocity data suggest that the damage was likely caused by an intense microburst with winds up to 85 mph.