⚠️ Severe Thunderstorm Watch – Blaine, NE; Brown, NE; Chase, NE; Custer, NE; Frontier, NE; Garfield, NE; Hayes, NE; Holt, NE; Hooker, NE; Keith, NE; Lincoln, NE; Logan, NE; Loup, NE; McPherson, NE; Perkins, NE; Rock, NE; Thomas, NE; Wheeler, NE – Saturday, July 4, 2026

Event	Severe Thunderstorm Watch
Severity	Severe
Urgency	Future
Certainty	Possible
Area	Blaine, NE; Brown, NE; Chase, NE; Custer, NE; Frontier, NE; Garfield, NE; Hayes, NE; Holt, NE; Hooker, NE; Keith, NE; Lincoln, NE; Logan, NE; Loup, NE; McPherson, NE; Perkins, NE; Rock, NE; Thomas, NE; Wheeler, NE
Effective	7/4/2026, 4:56:00 PM CDT
Expires	7/4/2026, 11:00:00 PM CDT

Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued July 4 at 4:56PM CDT until July 4 at 11:00PM CDT by NWS North Platte NE

Details

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
461 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT /10 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING FOR THE
FOLLOWING AREAS

IN NEBRASKA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 18 COUNTIES

IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA

CUSTER

IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

BLAINE BROWN GARFIELD
HOLT LOUP ROCK
THOMAS WHEELER

IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

CHASE FRONTIER HAYES
KEITH LINCOLN PERKINS

IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA

HOOKER LOGAN MCPHERSON

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF AINSWORTH, ATKINSON, BARTLETT,
BASSETT, BREWSTER, BROKEN BOW, BURWELL, CHAMPION, CURTIS,
DUNNING, ENDERS, ERICSON, EUSTIS, GRANT, HALSEY, HAYES CENTER,
IMPERIAL, MAYWOOD, MULLEN, NORTH PLATTE, O’NEILL, OGALLALA,
PAXTON, PURDUM, RINGGOLD, ROSE, STAPLETON, TAYLOR, THEDFORD,
TRYON, AND WAUNETA.

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