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

Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued August 19 at 12:56PM CDT until August 19 at 1:45PM CDT by NWS Omaha/Valley NE

Details

SVROAX

The National Weather Service in Omaha has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for…
Seward County in southeastern Nebraska…
Northwestern Saline County in southeastern Nebraska…
Southwestern Butler County in east central Nebraska…

* Until 145 PM CDT.

* At 1256 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Rising City to 5 miles northwest of Waco to 2
miles west of Bradshaw, moving southeast 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…
Surprise around 100 PM CDT.
Utica and Ulysses around 105 PM CDT.
Staplehurst around 115 PM CDT.

Other locations in the path of these severe thunderstorms include
Beaver Crossing, Bee, Goehner, Seward, Cordova and Garland.

This includes Interstate 80 in Nebraska between mile markers 366 and
379.

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.