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

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Earthquake Index, #209

Brownville, NE	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

Brownville, NE	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, #291

Brownville, NE	206.90
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 3,468 other weather extremes events within 50 miles of Brownville, NE were recorded from 1950 to 2010. The following is a break down of these events:

Type	Count	Type	Count	Type	Count	Type	Count	Type	Count
Avalanche:	0	Blizzard:	16	Cold:	45	Dense Fog:	0	Drought:	7
Dust Storm:	0	Flood:	319	Hail:	1,596	Heat:	19	Heavy Snow:	15
High Surf:	0	Hurricane:	0	Ice Storm:	19	Landslide:	0	Strong Wind:	50
Thunderstorm Winds:	1,178	Tropical Storm:	0	Wildfire:	0	Winter Storm:	104	Winter Weather:	16
Other:	84

Volcanos Nearby

No volcano is found in or near Brownville, NE.

Historical Earthquake Events

No historical earthquake events that had recorded magnitudes of 3.5 or above found in or near Brownville, NE.

No historical earthquake events found in or near Brownville, NE.

Historical Tornado Events

A total of 74 historical tornado events that had recorded magnitude of 2 or above found in or near Brownville, NE.

Distance (miles)	Date	Magnitude	Start Lat/Log	End Lat/Log	Length	Width	Fatalities	Injuries	Property Damage	Crop Damage	Affected County
6.1	1950-05-08	2	40°23'N / 95°48'W	40°17'N / 95°41'W	8.80 Miles	467 Yards	0	1	25K	0	Nemaha
7.8	1956-04-02	2	40°22'N / 95°50'W	40°24'N / 95°47'W	2.30 Miles	100 Yards	0	0	3K	0	Nemaha
9.1	1968-04-16	2	40°23'N / 95°50'W		1.20 Miles	33 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Nemaha
9.6	1965-07-08	2	40°32'N / 95°42'W				0	0	3K	0	Fremont
10.5	1963-04-28	3	40°23'N / 95°53'W	40°27'N / 95°50'W	4.90 Miles	300 Yards	1	8	25K	0	Nemaha
18.6	2004-08-26	2	40°39'N / 95°36'W	40°40'N / 95°33'W	3.00 Miles	880 Yards	0	0	0	0	Fremont
		Brief Description: A tornado that eventually reached f2 in strength first touched down 2.5 miles southwest of Riverton. The tornado reached it's maximum intensity and maximum damage width of 1/2 mile when it destroyed a home on 270th street. The tornado also caused signifcant damage to another house, several vehicles, other farm outbuildings, crops and trees before lifting 1 mile southeast of Riverton.
18.7	1983-05-01	2	40°38'N / 95°40'W	40°42'N / 95°35'W	7.00 Miles	20 Yards	0	3	2.5M	0	Fremont
19.3	1955-04-23	2	40°26'N / 95°18'W	40°28'N / 95°18'W	2.30 Miles	100 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Atchison
19.7	1954-04-05	4	40°33'N / 95°23'W	40°35'N / 95°20'W	3.00 Miles	900 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Atchison
19.9	1954-05-31	2	40°23'N / 95°25'W	40°26'N / 95°09'W	14.20 Miles	440 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Atchison
20.3	2008-06-05	2	40°04'N / 95°31'W	40°12'N / 95°28'W	9.00 Miles	880 Yards	0	0	0K	0K	Richardson
		Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: This tornado started approximately 4 miles east of Falls City and traveled north northeast. Soon after the initial touchdown there was damage to the roof of a home and a church. The tornado then produced tree damage before blowing the roof off of a home and destroying several sheds and barns at another farmstead. Other tree, house, outbuilding and power pole damage was observed along its path before it crossed the Missouri River into Holt county Missouri. The damage path reached a half mile wide where high tension power poles were snapped northeast of Falls City. EPISODE NARRATIVE: A warm front and low pressure system over northern Kansas lifted northeast into southeast Nebraska and southwest Iowa as an unseasonably strong upper level low pressure system lifted from the Rockies into the northern plains. The front and upper level disturbance caused fast moving thunderstorms, a few severe, to develop during the late morning hours in northeast Nebraska. After a brief lull in the activity through early afternoon, additional thunderstorms developed over eastern Nebraska. The storms developed along 2 lines, one extended north of Columbus while the other stretched from southeast Nebraska into southwest Iowa. Several of the storms turned severe, including one supercell that produced an EF2 tornado in extreme southeast Nebraska. Besides the severe weather, a few of the thunderstorms produced additional areas of heavy rain that fell on saturated soils and caused some already high rivers to flood.
20.4	1968-04-16	2	40°40'N / 95°30'W		0.50 Mile	33 Yards	0	0	3K	0	Fremont
21.5	1959-05-26	2	40°36'N / 95°38'W	40°49'N / 95°45'W	15.90 Miles	400 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Fremont
23.9	1954-04-05	4	40°35'N / 95°19'W	40°37'N / 95°16'W	3.30 Miles	700 Yards	0	2	25K	0	Page
24.2	1979-08-28	3	40°41'N / 95°22'W	40°32'N / 95°13'W	12.80 Miles	533 Yards	0	0	3K	0	Page
24.7	1968-04-16	2	40°43'N / 95°27'W		2.00 Miles	200 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Fremont
26.3	1982-04-15	2	40°31'N / 96°09'W	40°32'N / 96°07'W	2.00 Miles	70 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Otoe
26.7	1968-04-16	2	40°11'N / 96°05'W				0	0	25K	0	Pawnee
26.8	1966-05-23	2	40°27'N / 95°13'W	40°28'N / 95°06'W	5.70 Miles	50 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Atchison
27.1	1979-08-28	3	40°52'N / 95°40'W	40°41'N / 95°22'W	19.90 Miles	533 Yards	2	14	2.5M	0	Fremont
27.2	1959-05-10	2	40°31'N / 95°10'W		0.20 Mile	17 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Nodaway
27.7	1955-04-23	2	40°38'N / 95°14'W		1.50 Miles	30 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Page
27.9	1964-06-22	3	40°45'N / 95°36'W	40°50'N / 95°29'W	8.00 Miles	400 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Fremont
28.0	1964-04-20	2	40°45'N / 95°28'W	40°47'N / 95°25'W	2.70 Miles	300 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Fremont
28.1	1982-04-15	2	40°30'N / 96°12'W	40°31'N / 96°09'W	3.00 Miles	70 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Johnson
28.6	1964-06-22	4	40°42'N / 95°27'W	40°46'N / 95°14'W	11.90 Miles	400 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Fremont
29.1	1975-06-18	2	40°40'N / 95°14'W				0	0	25K	0	Page
29.2	1954-04-05	3	40°36'N / 95°14'W	40°40'N / 95°10'W	5.20 Miles	667 Yards	0	0	0K	0	Page
29.8	1961-05-07	2	39°58'N / 95°37'W				0	0	25K	0	Brown
30.5	1954-05-31	2	40°26'N / 95°09'W	40°27'N / 95°01'W	6.80 Miles	440 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Morgan
31.2	1979-03-29	4	40°29'N / 95°09'W	40°34'N / 95°02'W	8.00 Miles	500 Yards	0	4	0K	0	Nodaway
32.6	1975-12-13	2	40°13'N / 96°14'W		1.00 Mile	50 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Pawnee
33.3	1964-06-19	3	40°43'N / 95°21'W	40°50'N / 95°11'W	11.50 Miles	350 Yards	0	2	2.5M	0	Page
33.3	1957-05-09	2	40°32'N / 96°18'W	40°39'N / 96°11'W	9.90 Miles	120 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Otoe
33.5	1990-06-13	2	40°52'N / 95°39'W	40°53'N / 95°27'W	10.50 Miles	67 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Fremont
33.8	2004-08-26	2	40°40'N / 95°12'W	40°39'N / 95°02'W	7.00 Miles	1200 Yards	0	0	0	0	Page
		Brief Description: This tornado first touched down around 2 miles east of Coin and tracked 7 miles before lifting just northwest of Shambaugh. The tornado reached it's maximum intensity of f2 north of College Springs where a farmstead sustained serious damage. The roof of a house at this farmstead was removed and siding was damaged, a hay barn was flattened, grain bins were crushed and the roof of a silo and other nearby outbuildings were destroyed. Other farmsteads received damage to outbuildings and the crop and tree damage path at times widened to 3/4 of a mile.
34.1	1964-09-22	2	40°39'N / 95°14'W	40°48'N / 95°07'W	11.80 Miles	300 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Page
34.2	1979-08-28	3	40°55'N / 95°46'W	40°52'N / 95°40'W	5.60 Miles	533 Yards	0	0	3K	0	Mills
34.7	1984-06-07	2	39°49'N / 95°43'W	39°59'N / 95°26'W	18.00 Miles	300 Yards	0	5	2.5M	0	Brown
35.0	1998-06-13	2	39°54'N / 95°47'W	39°54'N / 95°47'W	1.00 Mile	100 Yards	0	0	3.5M	0	Nemaha
		Brief Description: A tornado ripped through downtown Sabetha causing extensive structural damage to buildings in a two block area, as well as downing power lines and several large trees. The tornado's path extended from one-half mile west to one-half mile east of the City Hall building. Eighteen buildings in downtown sustained damage with five buildings including City Hall damaged close to the point of loss. The tornado caused 2 million in damage to City Hall alone as it destroyed half the roof and walls of the building. Away from downtown several homes and vehicles were damaged from fallen trees and limbs on the fringes of the tornado or from strong straight line winds.
35.4	1984-06-12	2	40°52'N / 95°56'W		0.50 Mile	50 Yards	0	0	3K	0	Cass
35.6	1964-04-12	4	40°40'N / 95°14'W	40°50'N / 95°06'W	13.10 Miles	400 Yards	1	28	2.5M	0	Page
36.0	1967-06-09	2	40°35'N / 96°23'W	40°39'N / 96°11'W	11.30 Miles	33 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Otoe
37.0	1973-04-19	2	39°53'N / 95°28'W		0.20 Mile	100 Yards	0	0	0K	0	Brown
37.0	1967-06-07	2	40°07'N / 96°56'W	40°14'N / 95°40'W	67.30 Miles	33 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Jefferson
37.1	1995-05-08	2	40°27'N / 96°23'W	40°31'N / 96°20'W	1.50 Miles	400 Yards	0	0	450K	0	Nemaha
		Brief Description: A tornado touched down four miles west and one-half mile south of Auburn and did extensive damage to a house, farm, its outbuildings, and power lines along the path of the tornado. A second farmsite was damage three and one-half miles west of Auburn.
37.6	1964-04-20	2	40°54'N / 95°23'W				0	1	250K	0	Montgomery
38.2	1958-07-03	2	40°14'N / 96°28'W	40°18'N / 96°16'W	11.20 Miles	33 Yards	0	1	250K	0	Pawnee
38.3	1984-06-12	2	40°48'N / 96°09'W	40°55'N / 95°59'W	11.00 Miles	100 Yards	0	0	2.5M	0	Cass
38.9	1965-07-01	3	40°43'N / 96°25'W	40°39'N / 96°11'W	12.80 Miles	33 Yards	0	1	250K	0	Otoe
39.0	1963-04-28	2	39°52'N / 96°15'W	40°00'N / 95°55'W	19.80 Miles	100 Yards	0	0	0K	0	Marshall
39.5	1979-03-29	4	40°34'N / 95°02'W	40°42'N / 94°55'W	10.80 Miles	500 Yards	0	16	2.5M	0	Page
40.2	1959-05-18	3	39°49'N / 95°37'W		0.50 Mile	100 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Brown
40.3	1964-04-12	2	40°17'N / 94°59'W	40°23'N / 94°49'W	10.80 Miles	80 Yards	0	0	2.5M	0	Nodaway
40.7	1991-04-26	3	40°36'N / 96°24'W	40°47'N / 96°16'W	14.00 Miles	350 Yards	0	2	2.5M	0	Otoe
42.0	1952-11-16	3	40°27'N / 95°04'W	40°34'N / 94°41'W	21.60 Miles	600 Yards	0	2	25K	0	Nodaway
43.5	1991-04-26	2	40°26'N / 96°30'W	40°31'N / 96°28'W	4.00 Miles	150 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Gage
43.9	2005-06-04	2	39°46'N / 95°32'W	39°47'N / 95°27'W	3.00 Miles	100 Yards	0	0	400K	0	Brown
		Brief Description: Three farmsteads or businesses sustained damage with a total of 15 buildings damaged or destroyed. Several cars were rolled and a combine was moved a considerable distance. A salvage yard was near one of the houses damaged by the tornado. A hubcap from the salvage yard had become airborne and was impaled in the sheet rock in the living room of the house.
44.1	1984-06-07	3	40°44'N / 95°02'W	40°50'N / 94°57'W	7.00 Miles	100 Yards	0	3	2.5M	0	Page
44.2	1993-05-06	2	39°42'N / 95°44'W	39°49'N / 95°42'W	8.00 Miles	300 Yards	0	0	500K	50K	Brown
		Brief Description: The tornado began near Highway 75 about eight miles south of Fairview and moved northnortheast damaging about half dozen farmsteads before dissipating southeast of Fairview. The tornado was not on the ground continuously along its path. Debris from the tornado was reported in the sky west of Hiawatha.
44.8	2001-04-11	2	40°15'N / 96°30'W	40°16'N / 96°29'W	2.00 Miles	50 Yards	0	2	400K	0	Gage
		Brief Description: A tornado caused extensive damage in Virginia with most of the damage occurring along a 4 block long and 1 block wide stretch through the center of town. One house was almost completely destroyed causing minor injuries to 2 people living there. Six other homes and businesses sustained extensive damage, and trees and other debris were scattered all over the community.
44.8	1962-05-31	2	39°42'N / 95°36'W	39°48'N / 95°36'W	6.90 Miles	13 Yards	0	0	0K	0	Brown
44.8	1959-05-04	2	39°55'N / 95°49'W	39°35'N / 95°38'W	24.90 Miles	1760 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Jackson
45.1	1964-06-19	3	40°44'N / 95°03'W	40°50'N / 94°53'W	10.60 Miles	200 Yards	0	1	250K	0	Page
45.2	1950-05-05	3	39°39'N / 95°34'W	39°51'N / 95°31'W	14.00 Miles	440 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Brown
46.0	1993-05-06	2	39°37'N / 96°08'W	39°58'N / 95°55'W	23.00 Miles	440 Yards	0	0	5.0M	50K	Nemaha
		Brief Description: The longest track tornado of the day moved southwest to northeast across Nemaha county miraculously producing no deaths or injuries. However significant damage occurred to about 20 different farms or farmsteads and related business, machinery and buildings. The tornado just missed populated areas and remained generally in fields and farm areas. Excessive rain in the days after the storm hampered cleanup. Property damage from the tornado was estimated at $1.1 million. In some areas the tornado was about 1/2 mile wide while in other areas damage was only about 100 yards wide. At times the tornado had multiple vortices.
47.2	1964-04-12	2	40°54'N / 95°03'W		2.00 Miles	150 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Montgomery
47.6	1959-05-18	2	39°44'N / 95°25'W		1.00 Mile	880 Yards	0	0	3K	0	Brown
48.0	1971-05-05	2	40°47'N / 94°54'W				0	1	25K	0	Taylor
48.3	2006-03-30	2	39°59'N / 94°55'W	40°02'N / 94°53'W	5.00 Miles	800 Yards	0	8	800K	0	Andrew
		Brief Description: Tornado touched down southeast of Fillmore and traveled northeast 5 miles before dissipating around Highway 71 and A Highway. Three homes were nearly or completely destroyed and 8 had minor to moderate damage. Eight persons were injured.
48.6	1950-05-08	2	41°02'N / 95°16'W	41°01'N / 95°13'W			0	0	0K	0	Montgomery
48.9	1959-05-10	2	40°56'N / 95°03'W		1.00 Mile	200 Yards	0	0	3K	0	Montgomery
49.0	1981-04-11	2	40°41'N / 94°45'W	40°43'N / 94°53'W	6.90 Miles	50 Yards	0	2	2.5M	0	Taylor
49.8	2007-05-05	2	41°03'N / 95°19'W	41°06'N / 95°21'W	5.00 Miles	400 Yards	0	0	0K	0K	Montgomery
		Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: This tornado tore the roof off of a house, destroyed a barn, downed trees and power poles and tossed cars into a field. Most of the damage was in Montgomery county, east of Henderson (which is in Mills county). The tornado crossed into Pottawattamie county about 4 miles southeast of Macedonia. The total path length was around 11.5 miles. EPISODE NARRATIVE: A warm front that was along the Kansas and Nebraska border early Saturday morning May 5th, lifted north during the day bringing widespread heavy rain and severe weather, including tornadoes, to eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa. The warm front was part of a large upper level system that brought several days of severe weather and flooding to the region. Heavy rain and flooding was reported with some of the activity Saturday morning, along with isolated severe thunderstorm reports. However, during the afternoon the severe weather became more widespread over northeast Nebraska where supercells spawned several tornadoes. At this time, thunderstorms, some severe with heavy rain, produced flash flooding over parts of southeast Nebraska. By evening much of the severe weather, including supercell producing tornadoes, shifted into southwest Iowa, although isolated severe thunderstorms persisted over parts of eastern Nebraska until after midnight CDT.

* 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.