⚠️ Severe Thunderstorm Warning – Butler, NE; Lancaster, NE; Saunders, NE; Seward, NE – Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued August 19 at 1:36PM CDT until August 19 at 2:30PM CDT by NWS Omaha/Valley NE

Details

SVROAX

The National Weather Service in Omaha has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for…
Central Lancaster County in southeastern Nebraska…
Eastern Seward County in southeastern Nebraska…
Southeastern Butler County in east central Nebraska…
Southwestern Saunders County in east central Nebraska…

* Until 230 PM CDT.

* At 135 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 2 miles northeast of Ulysses to 2 miles north of
Seward to 5 miles southeast of Goehner, moving east at 35 mph.

HAZARD…60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.

SOURCE…Radar indicated.

IMPACT…Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Severe thunderstorms will be near…
Seward, Milford, Garland, Dwight, and Bee around 140 PM CDT.
Malcolm and Pleasant Dale around 150 PM CDT.
Emerald around 155 PM CDT.

Other locations in the path of these severe thunderstorms include
Lincoln, Raymond, Lincoln Airport, Pioneers Park, Davey, Roca, Holmes
Lake Park and Walton.

This includes Interstate 80 in Nebraska between mile markers 377 and
409.

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.