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⚠️ Severe Thunderstorm Warning – Grant, NE; Sheridan, NE – Saturday, August 15, 2026

Event Severe Thunderstorm Warning
Severity Severe
Urgency Immediate
Certainty Observed
Area Grant, NE; Sheridan, NE
Effective 8/15/2026, 7:58:00 PM CDT
Expires 8/15/2026, 8:45:00 PM CDT

Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued August 15 at 6:58PM MDT until August 15 at 7:45PM MDT by NWS North Platte NE

Details

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The National Weather Service in North Platte has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for…
Central Grant County in west central Nebraska…
Southeastern Sheridan County in the Panhandle of Nebraska…

* Until 745 PM MDT.

* At 658 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Ashby, or 31
miles northwest of Arthur, moving east at 30 mph.

HAZARD…70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

SOURCE…Radar indicated.

IMPACT…Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect considerable
tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes,
roofs, and outbuildings.

* Locations impacted include…
Hyannis, Ashby, Bingham, Duluth, Dominick Lake, Finnegan Lake,
Swede Lake, Pratt Lake, and Spring Valley Lake.

This includes the following highways…
Highway 2 between mile markers 129 and 153.
Highway 61 between mile markers 141 and 166.

Instructions

Remain alert for a possible tornado! Tornadoes can develop quickly
from severe thunderstorms. If you spot a tornado go at once into the
basement or small central room in a sturdy structure.

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.