⚠️ Severe Thunderstorm Warning – Butler, NE; Seward, NE – Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued August 18 at 1:31AM CDT until August 18 at 2:15AM CDT by NWS Omaha/Valley NE

Details

SVROAX

The National Weather Service in Omaha has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for…
Seward County in southeastern Nebraska…
Southern Butler County in east central Nebraska…

* Until 215 AM CDT.

* At 131 AM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 2 miles southwest of Rising City to 2 miles north of
Waco, moving east at 50 mph.

HAZARD…70 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.

SOURCE…A personal weather station measured a 68 MPH wind gust
near Benedict.

IMPACT…Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to
mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.

* Severe thunderstorms will be near…
Utica, Ulysses, and Surprise around 135 AM CDT.
Staplehurst around 140 AM CDT.
Seward, Dwight, Bee, and Goehner around 145 AM CDT.

Other locations in the path of these severe thunderstorms include
Milford, Garland and Pleasant Dale.

This includes Interstate 80 in Nebraska between mile markers 366 and
388.

Instructions

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

This alert was automatically posted by SkyGuard, MWSC’s severe weather alerting system. Source: National Weather Service.