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High Wind Watches in Nebraska, 2026
18 high wind watches in 2026. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 18
- Busiest month
- March10 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- March 13, 20265 high wind watches
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 2:01 AM CST | High Wind Watch | LBF | Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 20 more | 33 hr |
| Jan 14, 2:19 AM CST | High Wind Watch | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Dawson, Franklin, Furnas, Gosper and 8 more | 35 hr |
| Jan 14, 2:20 AM CST | High Wind Watch | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 33 hr |
| Jan 14, 2:59 AM CST | High Wind Watch | CYS | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Jan 17, 3:22 AM CST | High Wind Watch | CYS | Box Butte, Dawes, Sioux | 11 hr |
| Feb 15, 1:27 AM CST | High Wind Watch | CYS | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 45 hr |
| Feb 23, 12:55 PM CST | High Wind Watch | CYS | Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball, Scotts Bluff | 25 hr |
| Mar 9, 3:02 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | CYS | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 45 hr |
| Mar 10, 11:57 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | FSD | Dakota, Dixon | 21 hr |
| Mar 11, 12:16 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | LBF | Arthur, Cherry, Deuel, Garden, Grant, Hooker and 3 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 11, 9:54 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | OAX | Butler, Cass, Douglas, Lancaster, Sarpy, Saunders and 1 more | 13 hr |
| Mar 11, 9:56 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | GID | Greeley, Hall, Hamilton, Howard, Merrick, Nance and 4 more | 14 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:44 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | OAX | Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 24 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:49 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 18 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:52 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | LBF | Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 20 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 13, 12:49 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 23 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:48 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | CYS | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Apr 21, 1:20 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | CYS | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff and 1 more | 50 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Banner County6
- Box Butte County6
- Cheyenne County6
- Kimball County6
- Scotts Bluff County6
- Sioux County6
- Dawes County5
- Morrill County5
- Arthur County3
- Cherry County3
- Deuel County3
- Garden County3
- Grant County3
- Hooker County3
- Keith County3
- McPherson County3
- Sheridan County3
- Greeley County3
- Hall County3
- Howard County3
- Sherman County3
- Valley County3
- Blaine County2
- Boyd County2
- Brown County2
- Chase County2
- Custer County2
- Frontier County2
- Garfield County2
- Hayes County2
- Holt County2
- Keya Paha County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- Loup County2
- Perkins County2
- Rock County2
- Thomas County2
- Wheeler County2
- Adams County2
53 more counties
- Buffalo County2
- Dawson County2
- Franklin County2
- Furnas County2
- Gosper County2
- Harlan County2
- Kearney County2
- Phelps County2
- Dundy County2
- Hitchcock County2
- Red Willow County2
- Butler County2
- Cass County2
- Douglas County2
- Lancaster County2
- Sarpy County2
- Saunders County2
- Seward County2
- Hamilton County2
- Merrick County2
- Nance County2
- Polk County2
- York County2
- Dakota County1
- Dixon County1
- Antelope County1
- Boone County1
- Burt County1
- Cedar County1
- Colfax County1
- Cuming County1
- Dodge County1
- Gage County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Knox County1
- Madison County1
- Nemaha County1
- Otoe County1
- Pawnee County1
- Pierce County1
- Platte County1
- Richardson County1
- Saline County1
- Stanton County1
- Thurston County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne County1
- Clay County1
- Fillmore County1
- Nuckolls County1
- Thayer County1
- Webster County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.