⚠️ Special Weather Statement – Garden; Grant; Hooker; Arthur; McPherson; Keith – Thursday, August 27, 2026

Special Weather Statement issued August 27 at 8:02PM CDT by NWS North Platte NE

Details

At 802 PM CDT/702 PM MDT/, Doppler radar was tracking strong
thunderstorms along a line extending from 17 miles northeast of
Keystone to 12 miles northeast of Lemoyne to 8 miles west of Arthur.
Movement was south at 25 mph.

HAZARD…Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and half inch hail.

SOURCE…Radar indicated.

IMPACT…Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
possible.

Locations impacted include…
Ogallala, Arthur, Paxton, Brule, Swan Lake, Keystone, Kingsley Dam,
Sarben, Lemoyne, Roscoe, Flatts, Green Lake, Bucktail Lake, Bourquim
Hill, Three Mile Lake, Eagle Gulch Campground, Haythorn Lake, Lena,
Sand Puddin Lake, and Nevens.

This includes the following highways…
Highway 61 between mile markers 79 and 139.
Highway 92 between mile markers 123 and 186.
Interstate 80 in Nebraska between mile markers 114 and 150.

Instructions

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CDT/900
PM MDT/ for southwestern and west central Nebraska.

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