Weather Alerts For Valentine, NE

A Weather Alert has been issued for a nearby area. While your current location is outside of the impacted area, please stay alert and monitor weather conditions. # SUMMARY -------------------- The National Weather Service in North Platte has issued a - Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Southeastern Cherry County in north central Nebraska... Brown County in north central Nebraska... Northern Blaine County in north central Nebraska... Eastern Thomas County in north central Nebraska... - Until 115 AM CDT. - At 1221 AM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 7 miles southwest of Brownlee to 9 miles north of Thedford to 12 miles southwest of Halsey, moving northeast at 60 mph. # DETAILS -------------------- HAZARD 70 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. SOURCE Radar indicated. IMPACT Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE Ainsworth, Thedford, Halsey, Johnstown, Purdum, Brownlee, Elsmere, Wood Lake, Hofeld Lake, Raven, Moon Lake, Hawley Flats, Willow Lake State Wildlife Management Area, Long Lake State Wildlife Management Area, Highway 83 crossing the North Loup River, Koshopah, Jones Lake, Giant Hill, Natwick, and Johnsons Corner. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS Highway 20 between mile markers 217 and 244. Highway 2 between mile markers 205 and 232. Highway 83 between mile markers 139 and 189. ISSUED AT Wednesday, July 1, 2026 at 12:21 AM CDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service North Platte NE HEADER BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED | Severe Thunderstorm Warning # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- Remain alert for a possible tornado! Tornadoes can develop quickly from severe thunderstorms. If you spot a tornado go at once into the basement or small central room in a sturdy structure. For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.

# SUMMARY -------------------- SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 426 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 2 AM CDT /1 AM MDT/ EARLY THIS MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN NEBRASKA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 23 COUNTIES IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA CUSTER IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA BLAINE BOYD BROWN CHERRY GARFIELD HOLT KEYA PAHA LOUP ROCK THOMAS WHEELER IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA CHASE FRONTIER HAYES KEITH LINCOLN PERKINS IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA ARTHUR GRANT HOOKER LOGAN MCPHERSON THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF AINSWORTH, ARTHUR, ATKINSON, BARTLETT, BASSETT, BREWSTER, BROKEN BOW, BURWELL, BUTTE, CHAMPION, CURTIS, DUNNING, ENDERS, ERICSON, EUSTIS, GRANT, HALSEY, HAYES CENTER, HYANNIS, IMPERIAL, LYNCH, MAYWOOD, MULLEN, NORTH PLATTE, O'NEILL, OGALLALA, PAXTON, PURDUM, RINGGOLD, ROSE, SPENCER, SPRINGVIEW, STAPLETON, TAYLOR, THEDFORD, TRYON, VALENTINE, AND WAUNETA. # DETAILS -------------------- ISSUED AT Wednesday, July 1, 2026 at 12:10 AM CDT ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE HEADER WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR WATCH 426

Closest strike: 0.3 miles Stay Alert! Remain in a safe area until there has been no lightning within 10 miles of this location for 30 minutes. Please be aware that lightning activity can remain high even when a storm is moving away from your location. Even if rain has stopped, do not leave your safe area until WeatherBug indicates that lightning is more than 10 miles away from this selected location. IF OUTDOORS Avoid water, high ground, and open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, and machinery. Find a safe area in a building or in a fully enclosed vehicle with the windows completely shut. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, convertibles, or near trees. IF INDOORS Avoid water and stay away from doors and windows. Avoid using a hard line telephone. Take off headphones. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, and TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.

There is a Marginal Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF WESTERN KANSAS SUMMARY Scattered severe thunderstorms will continue across parts of the central High Plains, with severe wind gusts being the primary hazard. Other severe thunderstorms are still possible across the Great Lakes and Northeast, as well as broader parts of the central Plains to middle Missouri Valley. Central Plains into the Upper MS Valley Between a broad large-scale trough over the West and an expansive upper ridge over the eastern half of the CONUS, a belt of enhanced midlevel southwesterly flow is yielding around 40-50 kt of effective shear from the central Plains into the upper MS Valley. Here, middle/upper 60s to lower 70s dewpoints beneath steep midlevel lapse rates (sampled by 00Z observed soundings) are contributing to moderate-strong surface-based buoyancy. Despite gradual nocturnal boundary-layer cooling, this buoyancy and deep-layer shear will continue to promote the development of loosely organized convective clusters and supercell structures spreading northeastward overnight. The primary concern with this activity will be damaging/severe wind gusts (some upwards of 75 mph) and large hail. Northeast A band of thunderstorms tracking southeastward across southern Ontario could spread into parts of NY tonight, and given an established cold pool, damaging winds will be possible. However, surface observations and the 00Z ALB sounding suggest lingering low-level static stability in the wake of earlier convection may limit the overall severe risk.