Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, August 2026
20 severe thunderstorm watches in August 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 severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 20
- Busiest day
- August 10, 20263 severe thunderstorm watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Box Butte, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne, Deuel and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 9, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne and 19 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 11, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock | 7 hr |
| Aug 12, 2:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 28 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 12, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo, Chase and 29 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 13, 1:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 15, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 16, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 17, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Box Butte, Boyd, Brown, Cherry and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 17, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Butler, Cass, Clay and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 19, 9:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Butler, Cass, Clay, Colfax and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 21, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 21, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dundy | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Garden, Grant, Morrill and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 24, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Chase, Cherry, Frontier and 10 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kimball | 6 hr |
| Aug 27, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Box Butte, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 12 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 27, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dawson, Dundy, Franklin, Furnas, Gosper, Harlan and 3 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Box Butte County9
- Cherry County9
- Grant County8
- Dawes County8
- Morrill County7
- Sheridan County7
- Arthur County6
- Cheyenne County6
- Garden County6
- Hooker County6
- Keith County6
- Lincoln County6
- Logan County6
- McPherson County6
- Thomas County6
- Kimball County6
- Sioux County6
- Chase County5
- Deuel County5
- Hayes County5
- Perkins County5
- Banner County5
- Scotts Bluff County5
- Brown County5
- Frontier County4
- Dundy County4
- Keya Paha County4
- Boone County4
- Butler County4
- Cass County4
- Garfield County4
- Greeley County4
- Howard County4
- Lancaster County4
- Madison County4
- Merrick County4
- Nance County4
- Polk County4
- Seward County4
- Valley County4
52 more counties
- Wheeler County4
- Blaine County4
- Hitchcock County3
- Boyd County3
- Holt County3
- Rock County3
- Antelope County3
- Colfax County3
- Loup County3
- Otoe County3
- Platte County3
- Sarpy County3
- Saunders County3
- Stanton County3
- Hall County3
- Hamilton County3
- York County3
- Red Willow County2
- Burt County2
- Cuming County2
- Dakota County2
- Dixon County2
- Dodge County2
- Douglas County2
- Knox County2
- Pierce County2
- Thurston County2
- Washington County2
- Wayne County2
- Custer County2
- Dawson County2
- Sherman County2
- Clay County2
- Fillmore County2
- Gage County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Nemaha County2
- Pawnee County2
- Richardson County2
- Saline County2
- Thayer County2
- Cedar County1
- Buffalo County1
- Adams County1
- Nuckolls County1
- Webster County1
- Franklin County1
- Furnas County1
- Gosper County1
- Harlan County1
- Phelps County1
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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.