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Tornado Watch 357

June 20, 20268 counties in Colorado; 11 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 20, 2026, 1:50 PM MDT for 8 counties in Colorado; 11 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 20, 2026, 1:50 PM MDT (19:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2026, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 31 counties

Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Banner County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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: 40%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 10%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 2:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	60 min
Jun 20, 2:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Arapahoe, Washington	47 min
Jun 20, 2:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock	50 min
Jun 20, 2:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	17 min
Jun 20, 2:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Yuma	66 min
Jun 20, 3:02 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	43 min
Jun 20, 3:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	24 min
Jun 20, 3:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins	63 min
Jun 20, 3:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	46 min
Jun 20, 3:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Rawlins	23 min
Jun 20, 3:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	20 min
Jun 20, 3:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Hitchcock	18 min
Jun 20, 3:50 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Rawlins	11 min
Jun 20, 3:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Cheyenne	53 min
Jun 20, 3:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins	34 min
Jun 20, 4:11 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GLD	Rawlins	49 min
Jun 20, 4:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins	65 min
Jun 20, 4:28 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Rawlins	3 hr
Jun 20, 4:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	35 min
Jun 20, 4:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	25 min
Jun 20, 4:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GLD	Sheridan, Thomas	39 min
Jun 20, 5:00 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins	30 min
Jun 20, 5:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita	35 min
Jun 20, 5:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	36 min
Jun 20, 5:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	41 min
Jun 20, 5:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas	59 min
Jun 20, 5:40 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sheridan, Thomas	50 min
Jun 20, 5:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GLD	Gove, Logan	55 min
Jun 20, 5:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	64 min
Jun 20, 6:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Sheridan	29 min
Jun 20, 6:16 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sheridan	44 min
Jun 20, 6:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GLD	Gove, Sheridan	63 min
Jun 20, 6:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	36 min
Jun 20, 6:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Banner, Scotts Bluff	48 min
Jun 20, 6:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GLD	Gove, Logan, Wichita	47 min
Jun 20, 6:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Box Butte, Dawes, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sioux	38 min
Jun 20, 6:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Cheyenne	33 min
Jun 20, 7:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Thomas	20 min
Jun 20, 7:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Kimball	29 min
Jun 20, 7:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Kimball	17 min
Jun 20, 7:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff	48 min
Jun 20, 7:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Gove, Logan, Wichita	62 min
Jun 20, 8:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Cheyenne, Morrill	42 min
Jun 20, 8:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan, Thomas	20 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 20, 1:11 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 7 more	2 hr
Jun 20, 2:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, Prowers	6 hr
Jun 20, 4:42 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers, Yuma	2 hr
Jun 19, 6:40 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey, Cowley, Elk and 10 more	95 min
Jun 20, 5:45 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha	2 hr
Jun 20, 9:16 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Custer, Fillmore, Greeley and 9 more	119 min
Jun 20, 1:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more	8 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2026 Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2026 Tornado Watches in Colorado, 2026 Every tornado watch in 2026

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.