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Tornado Watch 287

June 8, 202619 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 8, 2026, 3:10 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 2026, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2026, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 4 in
Strongest gust expected: 80 kt

All 29 counties

Barton County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes: 40%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 80%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 70%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

28 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Furnas	49 min
Jun 8, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Furnas	25 min
Jun 8, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	48 min
Jun 8, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	63 min
Jun 8, 4:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Furnas	6 hr
Jun 8, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips	51 min
Jun 8, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Phillips	20 min
Jun 8, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Phillips, Smith	46 min
Jun 8, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Smith	47 min
Jun 8, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	42 min
Jun 8, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Norton	27 min
Jun 8, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Smith	14 min
Jun 8, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	54 min
Jun 8, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Osborne, Smith	50 min
Jun 8, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	47 min
Jun 8, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Smith	7 min
Jun 8, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith	39 min
Jun 8, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	51 min
Jun 8, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	31 min
Jun 8, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Russell	74 min
Jun 8, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Mitchell	40 min
Jun 8, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Lincoln, Russell	51 min
Jun 8, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	51 min
Jun 8, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell, Saline	75 min
Jun 8, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	48 min
Jun 8, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Barton, Ellsworth, McPherson, Rice, Russell, Saline	79 min
Jun 8, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	McPherson, Marion, Rice, Saline	76 min
Jun 8, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Butler, Chase, Harvey, McPherson, Marion, Reno and 1 more	75 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 12:33 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery	117 min
Jun 8, 12:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cherokee, Crawford	9 hr
Jun 8, 4:23 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherokee, Labette	2 hr
Jun 8, 7:09 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Labette	2 hr
Jun 8, 1:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Norton, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	3 hr
Jun 8, 3:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Comanche, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell and 6 more	2 hr
Jun 8, 3:32 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Sherman, Wallace	6 hr
Jun 8, 6:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis and 25 more	88 min
Jun 8, 6:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne	91 min
Jun 7, 9:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arthur, Cheyenne, Deuel, Garden, Grant, Morrill	60 min
Jun 8, 4:46 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arthur, Chase, Deuel, Dundy, Frontier, Garden and 7 more	119 min
Jun 8, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff and 1 more	7 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.