⚠️ Severe Thunderstorm Warning – Rawlins, KS; Hitchcock, NE – Thursday, August 27, 2026

Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued August 27 at 10:44PM CDT until August 28 at 12:00AM CDT by NWS Goodland KS

Details

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The National Weather Service in Goodland has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for…
Northeastern Rawlins County in northwestern Kansas…
Hitchcock County in southwestern Nebraska…

* Until midnight CDT.

* At 1044 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 7 miles southeast of Wauneta to 6 miles south of
Palisade to near Trenton to 4 miles southeast of Culbertson, moving
south at 20 mph.

HAZARD…60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail.

SOURCE…Radar indicated.

IMPACT…Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Severe thunderstorms will be near…
Trenton around 1050 PM CDT.
Stratton around 1100 PM CDT.

Other locations in the path of these severe thunderstorms include
Herndon.

Instructions

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

Large hail, damaging wind, and continuous cloud to ground lightning
are occurring with these storms. Move indoors immediately. Lightning
is one of nature’s leading killers. Remember, if you can hear
thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.

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