Friday, Oct 9: Nebraska has no severe risk in the outlook through Sunday.
The Storm Prediction Center's outlook for Nebraska over the next three days, the SevereWX forecast for each Nebraska city we cover, and what a typical severe weather year looks like here.
SPC outlook for Nebraska
Day 1 (Friday, October 9): No severe risk
Day 2 (Saturday, October 10): General thunderstorms
Nebraska averages 50.5 tornadoes a year (1996–2025), about 4.4 of them rated EF2 or stronger.
73% of them touch down between May and July, and June alone accounts for 32%. The busiest year on record in that span was 2004, with 111.
Storm reports average about 536 for large hail a year (67.7 of them 2 inches or larger) and 458 for damaging wind (2016–2025).
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather database. Tornadoes are counted in the state where they began. One storm can produce many reports. spc.noaa.gov