⚠️ Severe Thunderstorm Watch – Banner, NE; Box Butte, NE; Cheyenne, NE; Dawes, NE; Kimball, NE; Morrill, NE; Scotts Bluff, NE; Sioux, NE; Goshen, WY; Laramie, WY; Niobrara, WY; Platte, WY – Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Event	Severe Thunderstorm Watch
Severity	Severe
Urgency	Future
Certainty	Possible
Area	Banner, NE; Box Butte, NE; Cheyenne, NE; Dawes, NE; Kimball, NE; Morrill, NE; Scotts Bluff, NE; Sioux, NE; Goshen, WY; Laramie, WY; Niobrara, WY; Platte, WY
Effective	8/12/2026, 3:33:00 PM CDT
Expires	8/12/2026, 10:00:00 PM CDT

Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued August 12 at 2:33PM MDT until August 12 at 9:00PM MDT by NWS Cheyenne WY

Details

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
578 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS

IN NEBRASKA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 8 COUNTIES

IN PANHANDLE NEBRASKA

BANNER BOX BUTTE CHEYENNE
DAWES KIMBALL MORRILL
SCOTTS BLUFF SIOUX

IN WYOMING THIS WATCH INCLUDES 4 COUNTIES

IN EAST CENTRAL WYOMING

NIOBRARA

IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING

GOSHEN LARAMIE PLATTE

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF AGATE, ALLIANCE, ANGORA, BAYARD,
BORDEAUX, BRIDGEPORT, BROWNSON, CHADRON, CHADRON ST PARK,
CHEYENNE, GERING, GUERNSEY, HARRISBURG, HARRISON, HEMINGFORD,
KIMBALL, LUSK, REDBIRD, REDINGTON, SCOTTSBLUFF, SIDNEY,
TORRINGTON, AND WHEATLAND.

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