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The chance of earthquake damage in 68731 Zip Code is about the same as Nebraska average and is much lower than the national average. The risk of tornado damage in 68731 Zip Code is about the same as Nebraska average and is higher than the national average.

Topics:Earthquake IndexVolcano IndexTornado IndexOther Weather Extremes EventsVolcanos NearbyHistorical Earthquake EventsHistorical Tornado Events

Earthquake Index, #269

68731 Zip Code
0.02
Nebraska
0.04
U.S.
1.81

The earthquake index value is calculated based on historical earthquake events data using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the earthquake level in a region. A higher earthquake index value means a higher chance of an earthquake.

Volcano Index, #1

68731 Zip Code
0.0000
Nebraska
0.0000
U.S.
0.0023

The volcano index value is calculated based on the currently known volcanoes using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the possibility of a region being affected by a possible volcano eruption. A higher volcano index value means a higher chance of being affected.

Tornado Index, #386

68731 Zip Code
196.18
Nebraska
205.07
U.S.
136.45

The tornado index value is calculated based on historical tornado events data using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the tornado level in a region. A higher tornado index value means a higher chance of tornado events.

Other Weather Extremes Events

A total of 3,558 other weather extremes events within 50 miles of 68731 Zip Code were recorded from 1950 to 2010. The following is a break down of these events:

TypeCountTypeCountTypeCountTypeCountTypeCount
Avalanche:0Blizzard:29Cold:51Dense Fog:0Drought:5
Dust Storm:0Flood:240Hail:1,646Heat:7Heavy Snow:17
High Surf:0Hurricane:0Ice Storm:6Landslide:0Strong Wind:33
Thunderstorm Winds:1,354Tropical Storm:0Wildfire:0Winter Storm:56Winter Weather:33
Other:81 

Volcanos Nearby

No volcano is found in or near 68731 Zip Code.

Historical Earthquake Events

No historical earthquake events that had recorded magnitudes of 3.5 or above found in or near 68731 Zip Code.

No historical earthquake events found in or near 68731 Zip Code.

Historical Tornado Events

A total of 71 historical tornado events that had recorded magnitude of 2 or above found in or near 68731 Zip Code.

Distance (miles)DateMagnitudeStart Lat/LogEnd Lat/LogLengthWidthFatalitiesInjuriesProperty DamageCrop DamageAffected County
5.42001-08-17242°27'N / 96°34'W42°26'N / 96°34'W1.50 Miles400 Yards033.0M0Dakota
 Brief Description: A tornado completely destroyed at least ten houses and heavily damaged several others. The tornado heavily damaged the town school, including taking most of the roof off the school. The only church in town and a telephone company building were also heavily damaged. Power lines, poles, and trees were blown down, and electricity and water service were knocked out. Three empty box cars on the southeast side of Jackson were toppled. Three injuries included a woman with a broken leg and cuts rescued from the rubble of a house, and two children with minor injuries.
6.31986-07-28442°32'N / 96°41'W42°25'N / 96°25'W20.00 Miles73 Yards0125.0M0Dakota
6.91975-05-22242°28'N / 96°22'W0025K0Woodbury
7.81968-06-13242°27'N / 96°20'W0.10 Mile100 Yards0025K0Woodbury
10.11994-07-05342°20'N / 96°18'W1.80 Miles150 Yards00500K5KWoodbury
10.51964-05-05342°31'N / 96°25'W42°34'N / 96°21'W4.10 Miles300 Yards072.5M0Woodbury
11.71986-07-28442°25'N / 96°23'W42°12'N / 96°11'W11.50 Miles73 Yards01250.0M0Woodbury
15.91979-05-08342°27'N / 96°10'W0425K0Woodbury
17.61967-06-14242°09'N / 96°29'W0.50 Mile33 Yards00250K0Thurston
18.11998-06-23242°12'N / 96°15'W42°12'N / 96°15'W2.00 Miles50 Yards0000Monona
 Brief Description: House destroyed.
20.61954-06-17342°07'N / 96°42'W42°12'N / 96°42'W5.70 Miles163 Yards10250K0Thurston
20.71986-07-28442°11'N / 96°14'W42°11'N / 96°10'W1.00 Mile73 Yards00250.0M0Monona
20.81983-09-05242°23'N / 96°04'W2.50 Miles127 Yards00250K0Woodbury
21.41973-06-18242°29'N / 96°04'W2.00 Miles400 Yards210250K0Woodbury
22.01973-06-18242°28'N / 96°03'W1.00 Mile300 Yards05250K0Woodbury
22.81986-07-28442°41'N / 96°58'W42°32'N / 96°41'W20.00 Miles73 Yards0025.0M0Dixon
23.31992-05-16242°22'N / 97°01'W42°21'N / 96°50'W8.00 Miles100 Yards002.5M0Dixon
23.31964-09-07242°42'N / 96°15'W2.00 Miles250 Yards00250K0Plymouth
23.41963-05-12242°13'N / 96°12'W42°18'N / 95°55'W15.20 Miles50 Yards0025K0Woodbury
25.01970-06-15242°02'N / 97°25'W42°28'N / 96°25'W59.10 Miles33 Yards000K0Madison
26.01963-06-09242°46'N / 96°37'W2.00 Miles33 Yards0225K0Plymouth
26.31955-05-26242°14'N / 97°00'W42°19'N / 96°55'W6.50 Miles167 Yards0025K0Wayne
27.61970-07-14242°36'N / 96°00'W1.00 Mile100 Yards0025K0Plymouth
28.01953-06-07242°45'N / 96°36'W42°52'N / 96°26'W11.30 Miles200 Yards000K0Plymouth
28.21992-05-16242°24'N / 97°02'W42°22'N / 97°01'W2.00 Miles100 Yards002.5M0Cedar
28.61963-06-09242°23'N / 97°20'W42°35'N / 96°43'W34.10 Miles33 Yards00250K0Cedar
28.71955-06-17242°15'N / 97°06'W42°21'N / 96°56'W10.60 Miles40 Yards003K0Wayne
29.41954-06-17342°05'N / 97°03'W42°07'N / 96°42'W17.90 Miles163 Yards00250K0Stanton
29.81967-06-14342°48'N / 96°35'W42°52'N / 96°29'W6.20 Miles500 Yards03250K0Plymouth
30.21964-04-20242°14'N / 97°01'W003K0Wayne
30.31980-05-29242°39'N / 96°59'W42°41'N / 96°55'W3.30 Miles60 Yards002.5M0Dixon
30.41991-08-07242°47'N / 96°10'W1.50 Miles63 Yards00250K0Plymouth
30.61963-03-16242°48'N / 96°12'W2.00 Miles200 Yards0025K0Plymouth
30.61953-06-19242°13'N / 97°01'W013K0Wayne
30.71978-07-05242°54'N / 96°33'W42°47'N / 96°10'W20.80 Miles30 Yards002.5M0Plymouth
32.31998-05-28242°33'N / 97°08'W42°33'N / 97°01'W8.00 Miles250 Yards0100Cedar
 Brief Description: Three farms damaged. Eight to ten power poles downed 8 -10 miles east southeast of Hartington. Injury occurred about 9 miles east of Hartington southeast of the Highway 84/57 interchange.
32.81991-05-28241°56'N / 96°24'W1.00 Mile440 Yards00250K0Burt
32.81964-08-10242°25'N / 97°07'W0025K0Cedar
32.91965-06-07342°52'N / 96°18'W42°48'N / 96°05'W11.50 Miles100 Yards0025K0Plymouth
33.51981-09-26242°47'N / 96°53'W0025K0Clay
34.01964-05-08342°47'N / 96°10'W42°49'N / 95°59'W9.30 Miles200 Yards0025K0Plymouth
34.41967-08-01241°59'N / 96°50'W2.00 Miles33 Yards0025K0Cuming
34.51991-05-27341°53'N / 96°28'W41°56'N / 96°20'W6.00 Miles1760 Yards022.5M0Burt
35.11967-08-16242°47'N / 96°56'W0025K0Clay
35.71992-06-16241°52'N / 96°25'W41°55'N / 96°21'W4.00 Miles150 Yards0025K0Burt
36.31954-05-27242°49'N / 96°05'W42°51'N / 96°02'W2.30 Miles200 Yards0025K0Plymouth
36.51967-06-14242°53'N / 96°10'W1.00 Mile100 Yards0025K0Plymouth
36.81984-06-11242°47'N / 96°59'W0025K0Clay
37.42003-06-23442°30'N / 97°19'W42°32'N / 97°04'W13.00 Miles1200 Yards103.7M0Cedar
 Brief Description: An eventual f4 tornado began its destructive path around 6 miles southwest of Coleridge. The tornado moved northeast and crossed the northern sections of the city uprooting trees, downing power lines and destroying a couple of grain bins. A construction business in a garage was also destroyed. The tornado then continued northeast of town hitting a large hog farm. At this farm a 70-year-old man was killed while in a storage shed when a tractor that was flipped by the winds crushed him. Many livestock were also killed by debris or flung through the air by the deadly winds. In one case cattle were carried over a mile then left dead in a pile. The tornado then widened to around 3/4 of a mile, reaching its maximum intensity. Numerous vehicles were tossed at this location and a complete farmstead was flattened. Trees were also stripped and debarked. The tornado remained around 3/4 of a mile wide for a few more miles before turning slightly to the southeast and diminishing, but not before hitting 2 more farmsteads and moving one house off of its foundation. In total, 11 homes received substantial damage and between 100 and 200 utility poles were downed. M70EQ
39.11965-06-07342°55'N / 96°48'W000K0Union
39.81964-09-07242°47'N / 95°58'W42°47'N / 95°48'W7.90 Miles200 Yards00250K0Plymouth
40.61965-09-09242°03'N / 95°54'W42°07'N / 95°43'W10.20 Miles100 Yards00250K0Monona
40.81953-06-07242°15'N / 97°25'W42°25'N / 97°07'W18.90 Miles33 Yards0425K0Cedar
41.71987-07-07243°01'N / 96°29'W43°00'N / 96°27'W2.00 Miles50 Yards00250K0Sioux
42.21991-08-07242°49'N / 95°54'W42°49'N / 95°49'W3.00 Miles80 Yards0025K0Plymouth
43.01962-05-21342°26'N / 97°27'W42°46'N / 97°06'W29.00 Miles500 Yards012.5M0Cedar
43.11991-08-07242°49'N / 95°49'W42°45'N / 95°47'W5.00 Miles80 Yards0025K0Cherokee
43.21978-07-05243°02'N / 96°15'W42°56'N / 96°03'W11.90 Miles200 Yards002.5M0Sioux
43.21991-05-28241°56'N / 95°57'W41°56'N / 95°53'W5.00 Miles60 Yards00250K0Monona
43.91964-05-05342°34'N / 96°21'W43°11'N / 95°26'W62.90 Miles300 Yards002.5M0Plymouth
44.01975-05-06341°58'N / 97°12'W42°12'N / 97°14'W15.90 Miles167 Yards01250K0Stanton
44.11950-07-15441°48'N / 96°36'W41°44'N / 96°25'W10.00 Miles440 Yards0332.5M0Burt
44.21987-07-07243°04'N / 96°37'W43°01'N / 96°29'W6.00 Miles50 Yards000K0Union
45.01965-06-07242°54'N / 97°03'W000K0Clay
45.32008-06-11241°48'N / 96°06'W41°51'N / 96°01'W5.00 Miles440 Yards000K0KHarrison
 Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: This is a continuation of the tornado that initially touched down in Burt county Nebraska, about 4.5 miles west of Little Sioux Iowa. The tornado eventually reached EF3 strength in Monona county when it hit a boyscout camp where 4 fatalities and 48 injuries occurred. The tornado crossed into Harrison county near mile marker 97 on Interstate 29 where a semi-truck was flipped. The tornado snapped power poles northeast of there with an estimated strength of EF2 in Harrison county. The tornado then crossed into Monona county Iowa about 4 miles north of Little Sioux. EPISODE NARRATIVE: A very strong and unseasonably cold upper level low pressure system that was tracking across the northern plains brought a strong low level jet to the region during the early morning hours of June 11th. The warm and unstable air that worked north into the region helped spawn early morning severe thunderstorms across eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa. Later that day as the upper level system worked into the central Dakotas, a cold front pushed across the region. This helped set off another round of thunderstorms that developed over east central Nebraska by late afternoon. Isolated small supercell thunderstorms initially developed ahead of the cold front over eastern Nebraska, but they were quickly overtaken by a broken line of larger supercell thunderstorms, some of the heavy precipitation type, that developed along the cold front. Cell mergers and training were observed well into the evening hours as the activity quickly spread across southwest Iowa. The storms produced a total of 8 confirmed tornadoes in the Omaha/Valley warning area which covers eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa.
45.62008-06-11341°51'N / 96°01'W41°54'N / 95°52'W7.00 Miles440 Yards4480K0KMonona
 Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: This tornado tragically hit a boyscout camp north of Little Sioux Iowa killing 4 young scouts. The tornado initially touched down in Burt county Nebraska, crossed into Harrison county Iowa near mile marker 97 on Interstate 29, and then finally crossed into Monona county Iowa about 4 miles north of Little Sioux. In Monona county the tornado entered the Little Sioux Scout Ranch, destroying the rangers home near the entrance of the park giving it a rating of EF3. The storm then blew down trees and destroyed bunk houses at the camp. Four scouts were killed in one bunk house when a brick chimney collapsed on them. In total 48 people were injured at the camp. The tornado continued to topple trees as it tracked into Preparation Canyon State Park. Just before it entered the park a farmstead sustained damage. The tornado hit another farmstead about 2.5 miles southwest of Moorhead where trees were blown down and sheds damaged. The tornado then began to weaken and finally lifted about 2 miles southwest of Moorhead. The total path length was around 14 miles. EPISODE NARRATIVE: A very strong and unseasonably cold upper level low pressure system that was tracking across the northern plains brought a strong low level jet to the region during the early morning hours of June 11th. The warm and unstable air that worked north into the region helped spawn early morning severe thunderstorms across eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa. Later that day as the upper level system worked into the central Dakotas, a cold front pushed across the region. This helped set off another round of thunderstorms that developed over east central Nebraska by late afternoon. Isolated small supercell thunderstorms initially developed ahead of the cold front over eastern Nebraska, but they were quickly overtaken by a broken line of larger supercell thunderstorms, some of the heavy precipitation type, that developed along the cold front. Cell mergers and training were observed well into the evening hours as the activity quickly spread across southwest Iowa. The storms produced a total of 8 confirmed tornadoes in the Omaha/Valley warning area which covers eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa.
46.41984-06-07242°39'N / 95°44'W42°46'N / 95°35'W10.00 Miles77 Yards002.5M0Cherokee
46.61966-06-02243°06'N / 96°24'W43°02'N / 96°11'W11.50 Miles300 Yards0025K0Sioux
48.91958-04-01242°44'N / 95°42'W42°51'N / 95°38'W8.30 Miles200 Yards0025K0Cherokee
49.51968-09-22343°01'N / 96°04'W43°04'N / 95°59'W4.70 Miles50 Yards002.5M0Sioux
49.61960-06-15241°42'N / 96°17'W0025K0Burt


* The information on this page is based on the global volcano database, the U.S. earthquake database of 1638-1985, and the U.S. Tornado and Weather Extremes database of 1950-2010.


 
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