⚠️ Special Weather Statement – Sheridan; Garden; Grant; Western Cherry – Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Special Weather Statement issued August 12 at 8:41PM MDT by NWS North Platte NE

Details

At 841 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Ellsworth, or 25 miles east of Alliance, moving northeast at 50 mph.

HAZARD…Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and nickel size 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…
Ellsworth, Antioch, Watson Lake, Patterson Lake, Finnegan Lake,
Kincaid Lake, Kennedy Lake, Wild Horse Flats, Smith Lake State
Wildlife Management Area, Snow Lake, Bingham, Wickson Lake, Diamond
Lake, Lakeside, Wolf Hill, Herman Lake, Jerry Lake, Krause Lake, and
Argo Hill.

This includes the following highways…
Highway 250 between mile markers 1 and 30.
Highway 2 between mile markers 98 and 132.

Instructions

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 900 PM MDT for
the Panhandle of Nebraska. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch also remains
in effect until 200 AM MDT for north central and west central
Nebraska.

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