⚠️ Special Weather Statement – Eastern Cherry; Grant; Hooker; Thomas; Arthur; McPherson; Keith; Lincoln; Western Cherry – Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Special Weather Statement issued September 2 at 10:48PM CDT by NWS North Platte NE

Details

At 1047 PM CDT/947 PM MDT/, Doppler radar was tracking an outflow
boundary along a line extending from 13 miles northeast of Whitman
to near Swan Lake to 8 miles northeast of Lemoyne. Movement was east
at 35 mph.

HAZARD…Wind gusts up to 50 mph.

SOURCE…Radar indicated.

IMPACT…Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include…
Mullen, Seneca, Swan Lake, Flatts, Big Lamunyon Flats, East Cody
Lake, Calora, Big Bald Hill, Bucktail Lake, Sand Beach Lake, Highway
97 crossing the Dismal River, Three Mile Lake, Giant Hill, Diamond
Bar Lake, Bucktail, Schnick Lake, Hecla, Kelso, Weir, and Shimmons
Lake.

This includes the following highways…
Highway 2 between mile markers 166 and 196.
Highway 61 between mile markers 104 and 115.
Highway 92 between mile markers 169 and 201.
Highway 97 between mile markers 35 and 79.

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.