⚠️ Special Weather Statement – Pottawattamie; Dodge; Washington; Saunders; Douglas; Sarpy – Saturday, August 8, 2026

Special Weather Statement issued August 8 at 3:16PM CDT by NWS Omaha/Valley NE

Details

At 316 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 2 miles south of Blair to Valley to 3 miles
west of Mead. Movement was southeast at 25 mph.

HAZARD…Wind gusts up to 50 mph.

SOURCE…Radar indicated.

IMPACT…Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.

* Locations impacted include…
Omaha, Fremont, Blair, Wahoo, Gretna, Bennington, Boys Town,
Elkhorn, Millard, La Vista, Ashland, Valley, Arlington, Yutan, Fort
Calhoun, Waterloo, Cedar Bluffs, Mead, Kennard, and Inglewood.

This includes the following highways…
Interstate 29 between mile markers 63 and 66.
Interstate 80 in Nebraska between mile markers 430 and 448.

Instructions

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

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