| Event | Special Weather Statement |
| Severity | Moderate |
| Urgency | Expected |
| Certainty | Observed |
| Area | Phillips; Smith; Gosper; Phelps; Kearney; Furnas; Harlan; Franklin |
| Effective | 8/14/2026, 12:06:00 AM CDT |
| Expires | 8/14/2026, 12:45:00 AM CDT |
Special Weather Statement issued August 14 at 12:06AM CDT by NWS Hastings NE
Details
At 1206 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Medicine Creek Reservoir State Recreation
Area to Hollinger to 7 miles north of Phillipsburg. Movement was
northeast at 55 mph.
HAZARD…Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
SOURCE…Radar indicated.
IMPACT…Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Strong thunderstorms will be near…
Arapahoe, Oxford, Orleans, Holbrook, Stamford, Edison, Hollinger,
and Woodruff around 1210 AM CDT.
Alma around 1215 AM CDT.
Republican City, Naponee, Huntley, and Harlan County Dam around
1220 AM CDT.
Atlanta and Bloomington around 1225 AM CDT.
Other locations in the path of these storms include Holdrege,
Bertrand, Elwood, Loomis, Smithfield, Ragan, Wilcox, Johnson Lake,
Hildreth and Funk.
Instructions
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
This alert was automatically posted by SkyGuard, MWSC’s severe weather alerting system. Source: National Weather Service.
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