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Tornado Watch 296

June 9, 202642 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 9, 2026, 5:46 PM CDT for 42 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 2026, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2026, 11:05 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 42 counties

Adams County, NE, Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Clay County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Garden County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Grant County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Keith County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Valley County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, York County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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: 50%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 30%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 50%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 50%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 50%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Garden, Grant	43 min
Jun 9, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Kearney, Phelps	45 min
Jun 9, 6:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Harlan, Kearney, Phelps	18 min
Jun 9, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Garden, Grant, Hooker, Keith, McPherson and 1 more	44 min
Jun 9, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Franklin, Hall, Howard, Kearney and 2 more	62 min
Jun 9, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Hall, Kearney	42 min
Jun 9, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden, Grant, Sheridan	41 min
Jun 9, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Sheridan	52 min
Jun 9, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Grant, Hooker, McPherson	50 min
Jun 9, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Adams, Clay, Hall, Hamilton, Howard, Merrick	47 min
Jun 9, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Hooker, McPherson	51 min
Jun 9, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	53 min
Jun 9, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley, Nance	19 min
Jun 9, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Custer, Logan, Thomas	48 min
Jun 9, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	26 min
Jun 9, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Sherman, Valley	25 min
Jun 9, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Hooker, McPherson, Thomas	48 min
Jun 9, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Garfield, Loup, Wheeler	65 min
Jun 9, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Valley	18 min
Jun 9, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk, York	45 min
Jun 9, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Brown, Custer, Loup, Rock	44 min
Jun 9, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Blaine, Thomas	29 min
Jun 9, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Valley	21 min
Jun 9, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield, Holt, Loup, Rock, Wheeler	51 min
Jun 9, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Boyd, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock	51 min
Jun 9, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	9 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, 7:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arthur, Chase, Cheyenne, Deuel, Dundy, Garden and 9 more	2 hr
Jun 8, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Arthur, Chase, Deuel, Dundy, Frontier, Garden and 8 more	5 hr
Jun 8, 10:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arthur, Chase, Deuel, Dundy, Garden, Grant and 5 more	2 hr
Jun 9, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow	7 hr
Jun 9, 3:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arthur, Chase, Cheyenne, Deuel, Dundy, Garden and 9 more	89 min
Jun 9, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Franklin, Furnas, Harlan, Nuckolls, Thayer, Webster	6 hr
Jun 9, 5:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo, Cherry and 26 more	59 min
Jun 9, 5:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Furnas, Hitchcock, Red Willow	2 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.